Proportional representation offers the most freedom

There is no political system which gives people more freedom than proportional representation. Before we make the comparison between fptp and pr we can think of other possible systems which do not involve democracy. One alternative to democracy is to have no state at all. This is anarchy and it is often proposed as the best possible system... but the problem with this is that it does not give people sufficient (or any) property rights. To have freedom we must have property rights which means anarchy is not a possible candidate for the best system to have. Another alternative to democracy is to have a government but such that it is answerable to no one but itself. This is a dictatorship... either benign or tyrannical. But because most dictatorships tend towards tyranny over time this is not a suitable system. Democracy is the only means by which we can get freedom but then we must choose between either fptp or pr. The advantage of pr is that people can choose to vote for not only the two main parties but also any one of a number of smaller parties. The purpose of democracy is to reduce the size of the (necessary) government but if democracy is not able to work effectively then the government will get too big. Fptp is a repudiation of the principles of democracy where power is shared. If we can choose from between only two parties it means that the electorate is effectively required to 'join' one of these parties. With pr there is no such obligation and the country is free to join no such party... and instead be governed by a coalition. To govern ourselves is to have no government so in that sense we can even think of pr as a type of anarchy. It is not possible to have more freedom in a society than with proportional representation.