The social commitment to
individual freedom need not, of course, operate only through the state,
but must also involve other institutions: political and social
organizations, community-based arrangements, nongovernmental
agencies of various kinds, the media and other means of public
understanding and communication, and the institutions that allow the
functioning of markets and contractual relations. The arbitrarily narrow
view of individual responsibility—with the individual standing on an
imaginary island unhelped and unhindered by others—has to be
broadened not merely by acknowledging the role of the state, but also by
recognizing the functions of other institutions and agents.
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