Liberals believe that hard circumstances like poverty, discrimination, or oppression cause people to believe and behave in certain ways, with little or no choice of their own. They do not expect people to rise above their circumstances or live above their material reality. Liberals turn a blind eye to the system of power and domination that their programs often unintentionally create. The conservative belief that people should participate in helping themselves is founded on the belief that they can help themselves. If you treat people like they have the capacity to change, they will begin to believe they can do so.
Conservatism is fundamentally more respectful of the diginity of human beings.
Liberals do not believe peple have the ability to chose their response to their environment. Conservatism, not liberalism, is the ideology of choice. Their problem is that they act so fast that they cause so many unintended consequences which could bring down the whole social project and which offend most everyone else in the meantime. Their victories are pyrrhic and their zeal is fundamentalist, two very undesirable traits in an ideology.