Free society

Free society

In a free society, all individuals act voluntarily. [ [http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/davis/davis4.html] ] Individuals in a free society find it safe to be unpopular. [cite web|url=http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1383.html|author=Adlai E. Stevenson|title=Speech in Detroit|date=1952-10-07] This can be elaborated in terms of freedom of speech - if people have a right to express their views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm. [cite web|url=http://www.opinionet.com/article.php?id=2735|author=Natan Sharansky|title=The Case for Democracy: the Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror]

In a free society, individuals would organize in voluntary associations, including free market and communist societies. In a free society, individuals would gain more prosperity, of non-aggression principle.

ee also

*Voluntary society

References

External links

* [http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-jf-nb.html The Foundations of a Free Society]
* [http://libertariannation.org/a/f63h2.html A Free Society Requires the Myth of a Higher Law]


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