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.
And finally, freedom minimizes the likelihood of collective social violence. Peace with justice, therefore, requires no idealistic vision of a future society. No utopia has been constructed here. We move toward greater peace and justice by reducing the restrictions on freedom that exist in and among individuals and groups, whether within or between nations. At the national level this means incrementally reducing government power.