Each of us has our subjective world, our own perspective, our unique interests and values. Others cannot know our wants and values, what affects our self-esteem. Our priorities, our ordering of desires, is personal. Thus, freedom is necessary. It enables individuals to best use what they know to achieve the best balance with others that will mutually satisfy their values and purposes, their justice.
Freedom maximizes social justice.
One cannot be unjust to oneself, although others can. As individuals freedom of choice empowers each of us to best achieve our own justice, and minimizes the power of others to treat us unjustly, as may a religious, business, or intellectual elite who controls the instruments of government coercion . Moreover, freedom maximizes social justice in the sense of promoting social conditions that foster the welfare, quality of life, and equality of groups. Freedom drives social and economic development, reduces inequalities of wealth and rank, helps overcome discrimination, and furthers the progress of knowledge and understanding. Freedom maximizes peace from violence.