Most Stable Isomer: Ortho, Meta, or Para Benzene?

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Which of the following is most stable. Ortho, meta, or para benzene? Also, why is this the case.
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your question makes no sense seing as benzen has no substituants to compare stability. And no hydrogens don't count as substituants
 
you may want to check the question just incase you may have miss-spelt the compound.

For example ortho-di-chlorobenzene can be compared to meta or para dichlorobenze in terms of stabilites
 
OMG sorry about that! I forgot to include the branch names. Assume the branches are bromine
 
well then that makes things a lot more clearer...know assuming you know how the orth meta and para positions look like on a molecule and the trend for increasing ionic radius you can further deduce that bromine is a fairly large molecule thus it wants its space otherwise if forced to close to another large molecule it would make it unstable.

From this i think you can figure out which orientation is the most stable