You can have maximum freedom and liberty with a lot of govt intervention?
Of course it's not a black and white issue (less govt intervention=more freedom is clearly not universally true), but generally speaking, the fewer the rules, the more freedom an entity has.
Well no, of course in a lot of areas government involvement does reduce freedom, but when a lack of government involvement results in, say, a society with greater income disparities and greater poverty, it reduces the economic freedom of the vast majority of the people. And obviously the police and the military give us the freedom to not be killed, which is pretty much the most important one of all.
And yeah I realize that since some (many?) people agree with me on this, it isn't something that really fits the title of this thread. Consider this act as close as I come to outright rebellion.
But it does seem to be a fairly universally accepted concept in high school government classes for example, which simplify politics by saying that the position of the Right on economics is in favor of greater economic freedom (usually in contrast to the Left supporting greater equality or some such).
