Independence is the notion of rewarding individual initiatives over collective ones. People who like Independence want to reward actions that:
- Help achieve self-sufficiency from the rest of society.
- Result from each member's effort.
- Help acquire self-discipline as a condition to achieving self-sufficiency.
Rewarding individual initiatives tends to create a society with a high level of economic independence among the various members of society (e.g. accumulation of wealth).
People on this side may support:
- Economic freedom
- Lower taxes
- Gun ownership
- Crime repression...