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LIBERTY |
the use of resources to promote liberty, freedom and social responsibility and rights that all citizens should
enjoy will be openly debated, and in answering them, people will appeal to many different principles – to
equality, to fairness, to the common good, to respect for nature, to the protection of culture and so forth.
As societies change, new needs and new problems arise; for example, problems associated with free trade
and barriers to trade among nations. World trade and its impact on the earth and its ecosystems, intellectual
property rights, climatic change, food scarcity, water crisis and energy crisis makes us think, ‘Did we use the
liberty granted to us well?’. It has also resulted in common framework of international ...