In performing these services, it gives the individual members of valued associations greater liberty and security: it relieves them of hampering conditions which if they had to cope with personally would absorb their energies in mere negative struggle against evils.
Dewey argues that a good state provides individuals with freedom and security by alleviating burdens.
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