The absence of this mechanism for transmitting moral values is one of the reasons that religious strife and social discord mark societies that have never known freedom. The Law One key institution that makes the coordination of a free society possible is the law. In a free society, law is not the same as the arbitrary government decrees of totalitarian and autocratic societies or the legislation of Western congresses and parliaments. It is, as we have seen, a code that has evolved not at the hands of politicians but in the decisions of judges. Over-government undermines that respect by imposing controls on society that do not conform to people's inherited sense of right and wrong.
Freedom creates order in society.
The institutions of a free society give people an interest in keeping the peace, better than any police state or concentration camp.