I have no idea who (or what) Max Justice is, beyond this quote above, which I thoroughly endorse. Understanding it is vitally important:
"Protecting the right and freedoms of the individual is the key to peace and prosperity for humanity."
The one follows from the other: To see each other as individuals, not as a "member" of some collective, is the beginning of peaceful co-existence. Individualism, properly espoused and protected, is the antidote to the demands for "group rights" exploding in the Middle East and around the world.
Take off your collectivist glasses about which group a piece of land "belongs" to, or not, and look instead at where individual rights are understood and protected.
If we are ever to banish war (the second greatest evil human societies can inflict), we need to understand the roots of war:
"If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify it—there can be no peace within a nation, and no peace among nations."
Start there.
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