Liberty not analysed any further here

Although the provision of more liberties would intuitively appear better to individuals than fewer liberties, because in this way their information processing would be augmented even further, this is not a matter to be decided lightly, first and foremost (utilitarian reasoning notwithstanding) because it is not claimed here that the augmentation of information processing is a worthy purpose for any state to pursue (taking into account, for example, the measures this pursuit also unavoidably necessitates). This would be a political decision. (States may need their citizens to augment their information processing, but whether needs need to be served (and to what extent) is a moral and political issue.) Evidently, for the very same reasons, liberty is not analysed any further here. Liberty is to be examined within the context of a moral philosophy at a later stage; here only what freedom and liberty really are is identified.

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