With a proportional voting system we can guarantee freedom and fair outcomes. With fptp there is a risk that outcomes are not free and proportional... this risk is eliminated under pr.
Fair votes eliminates the risk of not-proportional (not free) outcomes.
We know that we want proportional outcomes (we are not socialists) because otherwise we would not have a democratic system. It would not be difficult to guarantee proportionality (the absence of socialism) rather than to merely hope for it... so we might as well go to the small trouble of arranging proportional elections. A proportional system guarantees the absence of socialism whereas fptp only offers the chance of its absence. Proportionality guarantees freedom (from government) but fptp doesn't (and cannot) make this guarantee.
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