I set the hypothesis, that a free society needs nothing more then free speech and a culture where the discussion is won by the person that could learn the most from it.
All other freedoms can grow from these two premises.
Discussion
And the right to defend those freedoms otherwise they will always be stripped away.
Yes. But I think a society needs a room of discussion to define what measures are accepted for defending yourself.
But without this place to discuss, no shared decisions can be accomplished. So freedom of speech is has to be the fundamant to build upon.
The book "For a new Liberty" by Murray Rothbard gave me a new perspective on free speech.
Rather than being a seperate right it is just an extension of the true fundamental right of property rights on which everything else can be built.
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"In fact, there are no human rights that are separable from property rights. The human right of free speech is simply the property right to hire an assembly hall from the owners, or to own one oneself; the human right of a free press is the property right to buy materials and then print leaflets or books and to sell them to those who are willing to buy. There is no extra “right of free speech” or free press beyond the property rights we can enumerate in any given case. And furthermore, discovering and identifying the property rights involved will resolve any apparent conflicts of rights that may crop up."
Here I would argue against. I do not need no property at all to be able to meet and talk. Or to have a speech in public. Anevery book we ever have read, can only be read because there is the freedom to publish those. The abscence of censorship is the freedom of speech.
But the absence of censorship is the respect of property rights.
Books do not need to be some special thing that are protected. You should be able to make and distribute anything that you make. Protect the property rights and speech is included by default.
There is no default in the world. No human can live isolated. Societies are a necessety. And whtever freedom you see as essencial you can express with your freedom of speech.