Freedom and the State

(in response to a letter in the Post 01/16/07)

Classic question- why does the Right turn to the force of the state to achieve moral values and not economic ones, and the Left vis versa?

Personally, I only address questions of political economics, so I will leave political moral questions to others.

Capitalism is the opposite of exploitation. Exploitation is the forcing of others. Capitalism defends the liberty of the employer to offer employment, and the liberty of the employee to accept or refuse employment at the offered conditions.

What we do with our freedom is a question of ethics, which are values rightly sustained outside the role of the state.