"Those who would exchange freedom for security deserve neither"
I have mixed feelings about this statement mostly because it is too sweeping. There can't be freedom if that freedom is not secured. It's human nature to try and get and maintain power over fellow man, sad as it is, and everybody knows this. If people are afraid that they won't be alive the next day then they won't exercize the freedoms they nominally have. You don't say that the rising power is corrupt, you don't have the freedom if there is no guarentee that it will last and won't come back to haunt you.
This quote is similar to one by Benjamin Franklin "Those who would give up a little liberty for a a little security deserve neither, and lose both". I think this quote is a little closer to the truth, but it can't be applied to an entire situation or society. If you change the focus from protecting the citizens from oppresion to protecting the citizens from themselves by any means, you have become the oppressor.
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I definitely agree with this post. It is interesting how you backed up your ideas with humans and their natural state and how they would automatically respond to certain conditions.
I also liked how you included a quote by Benjamin Franklin. It is tough to specify if these statements are "correct" or not because of their bluntness. Yet you seemed to respond to both very well.
The one above is Molly Quinn-Shea
wow paige that was one of the best statements i have read so far. it is true that naturally a human wishes to gain complete power over one another. i also agree that Benjamin Franklin's quote is much closer to the truth, but yet both are hard to apply to an entire society. like a snowflake each person and society is different nothing could technically fit it perfectly
-Rachel Lee
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