.@JonahDispatch is right, Hayek passionately believed in a just society, and he considered a just society a society which applies the rules of justice equally to individuals, rules which expand to scope of human flourishing and social cooperation. 1/n

Hayek also believed that a liberal system of rules of just conduct encouraged and opened up scope for people to behave morally -- people are more moral in a free society than in a totalitarian society. 2/n

And in an unfree society immoral people rise to power and are encourage to be immoral. 3/n

Hayek is always careful not to commit the naturalistic fallacy or to move from explanatory theory to moral prescription & judgment. He doesn't do what Kristol and many neo-conservative do, assert that Plato and God have given them the form of The Good at Chicago or in prayer. 4/n

Hayek would make the argument this way, from the perspective we have attained morally and in terms of the causal explanation of social phenomena, we can see how some institutions allow morals to grow and improve and some institutional structures damage and destroy morals. 5/n