Freedom: Fair, just and effective!

Freedom is not only the most just and fair goal of all political activity, but also the solution to most of humans problems. Poverty, crimes, social injustice, famine and diseases are problems for which freedom is the most effective solution. This, above all, is the lesson to be learned from all political experiments of recent times. But how can that be? How can a simple catchy word like "freedom" be so powerful?

Worldwide, the most straight-forward freedom to implement is economic freedom. The only thing a state can ask another state to do is to negotiate over trade-issues. One state cannot force another to change internal laws or improve human rights. That would be interfering and sovereign states should be free from involuntarily interference from outside. Free-trade agreements on the other hand are relatively easy to implement since they don't pose a direct threat against ruling governments. However, as free trade lifts living-standards and decreases poverty, people start to act against unfair governments. In China, for example, the communists have been forced to recognize private property rights, improve human rights and face accusations regarding environmental-issues, all resulting in China finally applying for membership in the World Trade Organization with all the obligations that comes with. So economic freedom, innocent by itself, pushes for reforms from inside states, thus tackling problems like poverty, human rights and social issues in general.

This is not a surprising result and has in fact been predicted by liberal-writers throughout the last three centuries or so. Political philosophers, many of whom would be called libertarians or liberals today, have reasoned for freedom as the only fair and just ambition in politics. The empirical results confirm their thoughts. Thus, freedom reasoned for on analytical basis has turned out to work in the "real world" too. Few remain to dispute that.