Fundamentos De Una Sociedad Libre

What are the foundations of a free society?

As Ayn Rand soundly established: "the individual is the greatest minority". The right conception of this definition is deeply transcendent when we tryto approach to the role of the individual in a society; defining the society as a group of individuals that mutually cooperate to maximize the overall economic output per individual. Hence, we live insociety because our individual productivity increases rather than crafting by ourselves our living means. Ultimately, the broad justification of the existence of society lies on mere economicrationales. The prime objective of an individual is the self-fulfillment. It can only be reachable if the individual enjoys freedom due to the fact that the concept of happiness is subjective and functional.An individual can reach his objectives with more ease if cooperates and trades with other people, i.e., society. Bonding these individual purposes with the previous argumentation of society's economictrait, the burden of the lifelong pursue of happiness can be lowered if there is a social system based on freedom that enhances economic output. The private ownership of the means of production is acorollary of the subjective conception of happiness. Private property is also an implicit concept of human nature. Since birth, a man will be always owner of his mind, the fundamental property. So,the expropriation and intervention of private property is the expropriation of man's means of happiness. The protection of private property is fundamental premise of a free society. Freedom impliesresponsibility. Obviously, people can't be always accountable upon the actions they perform. An unbiased and efficient legal system diminishes the unaccountability of people doing harmful actions.Furthermore, this legal system must also protect the integrity of the individual, if we state that the minority is the entity we are there for. A free exchange is the basic mechanism of wealth generation....