Summary: Liberty Prosperity, Health, And Happiness

“Liberty, Prosperity, Health and Happiness”

Under the basic assumption that we are not constrained by the walls of imprisonment, liberty is an ever-present abstraction within our daily lives. Liberty is seen manifested within our realm with the availability of choices presented to us. Nevertheless, liberty is the engine that exerts choices. If we expand on the notion that liberty fuels choice, logic would guide us to the generalization that liberty is also encompassed with freedom. Woven all together, liberty is the freedom to exert choices without interruption of any other force that seeks to hinder it. Therefore, at its innermost layer, liberty emanates from the inclusion of will.
The great English philosopher John Locke expanded on such core with a philosophical layer where, “all men are naturally in a state of perfect freedom to order
However, the beauty of competition is that it leads to cooperation. If we were to remove competition from the equation of liberty, it would remove incentives for cooperation. Productivity from competition would evaporate and there would be no social order. If we consider the possibility of an environment without rules, order by brute force would arrive. In the absence of scarcity, cooperation and respect among individuals who are driven by self-interest dissolves. Rules enforced by force would take precedence. Consider the possibility if everyone would be free to do whatever they pleased enforced through violence. People would be forced to engage in violence means to protect property and ensure freedom. Liberty can consume itself and incentives to produce wealth would disappear. However, in the real world of scarcity, we are motivated to cooperation with one another respectfully producing code that is cognizant of social conduct. The imposition of such rules does hamper the full extent of our liberty. However, without rules there would be chaos and