Thursday, February 14, 2008
Molly Quinn-Shea- “Those who would exchange freedom for security deserve neither.”
(#1)I believe this only because you cannot truly feel free until you truly feel secure, and vise versa. In order to accomplish security…freedom must be accomplished as well. Security is not just the knowing that you cannot be harmed, it is also being comfortable with your actions and the possible outcomes. Then freedom is the understanding that you are able to express your thoughts and ideas with the knowledge that any contradiction will not be said in order just to silence but instead to comprehend; the security of this is essential. Already hinted in the book 1984, the main character that is given security his whole life has begun to feel uneasy about every action he takes. He has begun to question everyone and everything that is watching him, even if it is the slightest of suspicions. This proves that true security goes hand in hand with absolute freedom.
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Molly, I'd like to bring up a question about your definitions of freedom and security. What I understand from your description is that true freedom is that you are free to pursue any activiy that occurs to you, and that once we are able to live in this way, we will be completely secure. How can you have complete security when your fellow humans are free to cheat you, steal from you, even kill you? How does that provide any kind of security at all?
Aidan Lawrence-
I agree with this, because someone that sells out someone elses freedom, or attempts to barter their freedom will get neither. For example, if your government is asking you to give up freedom for security, and you do, you will be neither free, nor secure because the government will be able to see anything you do.
Aidan Lawrence-
I agree with this, because someone that sells out someone elses freedom, or attempts to barter their freedom will get neither. For example, if your government is asking you to give up freedom for security, and you do, you will be neither free, nor secure because the government will be able to see anything you do.
The first comment was by Sam Dunnington
Molly, You say that we need security to have freedom and vis versa. I feel that you can have freedom without being secured. You can have the freedom to do anything; sure people might get mad and threaten you but your free to do whatever you want untill you are stopped by something.
As for security, what if you feel secure by giving up your freedom to others.
Tenny Abbott
I disagree. I, like most people, believe freedom to be a good and necessary thing. True freedom gives people the freedom to give up their freedom. If they do, it is clear that they do not realize how valuable liberty is, but it is no reason to persecute them. With freedom comes choice, and everyone should have the choice of how they want to live.
-Hannah Walhout
While I personally believe that trading freedom for security is nothing short of a crime, I agree with Hannah in that people should be able to make their own choices, however disturbing it is that people, utilizing the freedom given to them, would choose to give that up. I also disagree because I don't think anyone has the jurisdiction to choose what someone else does or doesn't deserve.
After reading 1984, I have come to realize that a finalization
cannot be taken in answering this idea. Freedom will not and will never be "I can always do this and no one can stop me." As well as security is not just that someone is going to tell you what and how to do everything. I have witnessed an extremity of "security" in the book 1984 where the people were not even able to think without potentially getting in trouble. Originally, this was the only side I had considered. Yet once I began reflecting on what totaly freedom could result in, I realized there had to be a medium. People should not be able to hurt or take from you (Sam Dunnington made a good point), but they also should not be scared of thinking aloud.
:Molly Quinn-Shea
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