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About the Book
Never Again argues philosophically,
and by pointing to multilateral treaties among nations and UN
conventions, that individual freedom is the most basic human right.
This, and that freedom is a natural desire of all people, would be
enough to justify freedom for everyone. But, the major substance of
this book goes far beyond these justifications to establish that
freedom is also a Moral Good. One Moral Good is that liberal
democracies, those whose people are individually free with secure
civil and political rights and liberties, don't make war on each
other. Another is that their democratic governments do not murder
them. And a third is that their internal political violence is
minimal compared to non-democracies. All this alone would make
freedom the foremost Moral Good. But this book also shows that free
people-democracies-never have famines, and freedom is an engine of
the greatest wealth and development among nations. In short, to the
Moral Imperative, "No people should ever suffer war, democide,
famine, and mass impoverishment, no, never again," this book proves
that fostering individual freedom is the practical way to assure
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