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Why do people choose safety over freedom? |
Our forefathers fought and gave their lives so that we might enjoy freedom. However in recent times people are choosing safety over freedom of movement. They are choosing safety over privacy. I don't know about you but I made it through childhood without car seats, I made it through childhood without a safety helmet when I rode my bike. I just don't get why we are so willing to add cost and hassel to our lives when these things did not affect us as we grew up. 'Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither' - Benjamin Franklinfreedom is no good if your died............................. because they was to be safe. chin Fear best. cez I would prefer not to be protected from myself. I agree with your question, but not your answer. A case can be made for _some_ paternalistic laws, e.g. the two examples you gave. However, I disagree with, for example, motorcycle helmet laws. But the worse concern in choosing _perceived_ safety over freedom is that it causes us to (1) get into wars we have no business being in; (2) allow our government to tap / trace our communications, including the internet; (3) allow our government to kidnap people and hold them, sometimes allowing third parties to torture them. without any due process to speak of; (4) violate other, formerly held, Geneva Conventions of War; and (5) allow our Congress to ignore (and sometime legalize) these violations. I don't often quote him, because I disagreed strongly with his policies (but not his general philosophy on freedom): "You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down -- up to man's age-old dream -- the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order--or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course." - Pres. Reagan |
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