Freedom or Safety Freedom and safety seem to be mutually exclusive. To be safe is often to suffer under a repressive regime that does not allow one to be free. To fight for freedom, and even more rarely achieve it, requires conflict. To choose between freedom and safety is a nonissue, according to Mencken, because men do not want freedom, they simply want safety. As history, literature, and current events show, Mencken’s simplistic observations are not fully applicable in today’s world, because man often sacrifices security to pursue intellectual, personal, and political freedoms.
In the poem “Freedom” by James Kavanaugh, the fact that humans don’t want to be free due to the requirements of freedom is reflected in “Taming of The Shrew” through having the poem’s main points being compared to the events involving Katherine’s struggle for freedom and individuality. Kavanaugh is not giving freedom a negative image, but he is simply laying down how one needs to be in order to maintain freedom. An individual usually doesn’t “want freedom”, but rather “he only talks of it” because freedom requires certain qualities and has results that most would not want. The qualities because of this seem unfavorable, so the only thing men can do is talk about freedom. In terms of the requirements of freedom, man would rather “choose his slavery and pay it homage”.
Many people rationalize that if the end justifies the means that is okay to do something. However, this approach should really never be the way to handle something, unless it is truly for the greater good and not for individual gain.
A transformation from fear to free societies must be embraced from within. If a civilization is not willing to change what good will it do? Prosperity in fear societies can not be obtained without the intellectual and creative freedom of its people. "A regime based on fear must maintain increasingly tight control over its population to remain in power, and such control inevitably triggers a process of decay." The only way to slow the decay is to seek help from the outside.
Firstly, the subjective nature of the topic “we cannot hurt another human being without leaving a scar on ourselves” should be note. This statement evidently ceases to recollect that people live within our society that feel utterly no remorse; these people are commonly labeled as sociopaths. For the most part, sociopaths are unable to function adequately in a society. Secondly, it should be duly noted that hurt is never necessarily a bad thing; whether encountered by ourselves, or brought from ourselves onto another. Emotional (which is the main category of hurt this topic is refers to) pain can be extremely valuable if we take the time to ponder what it may be trying to tell us, or use it in a positive light; to learn more about ourselves, and grow emotionally and spiritually.
This showed the UK constitution to be very beneficial, and furthermore the Queen and the Royal Prerogative did not have to be consulted, which would have been different in a codified system and made the process much slower than in an uncodified constitution. Some may disagree with what seems to be one of the reasons why the uncodified constitution is advantageous and turn it on its head and say that the easiness of changing the constitution creates instability and unlawful action. An example of this was the use of rubber bullets and water cannons on the rioters in London. If the London riots occurred under an entrenched constitution there would have been no chance of the police being allowed to act in such a way legally, but under an
The difference between both of them is that they aspire to two very different aspects of life; She wants respect and he wants power, we see that those two principles do not always agree with each other. We obviously see that both are ready to face the extreme. But Creon could not be considered as a Sophoclean hero because all he does is respect what he has to do, the written laws. He could have made an exception, especially for his niece but he did not. Antigone was overpowered by unwritten laws, which are what makes her a Sophoclean hero.
People would feel that they have nothing for themselves. Terrorism does not give anyone the right to take away a person who has not done anything rights to privacy. I think that is what my main issue is. PRIVACY! I just hope that none of us ever have to deal with this issue.
Today if that code still existed, maybe the world would be a better place. Maybe there would not be as much violence as there is now. Should people be given second chances, or was there second chance used when they messed up the first time? One knows the law, and he/she knows that it should not be broken, but it happens anyway. In one’s opinion, Hammurabi’s code is very just for that time period because, like any other place, without a law there would be no sense of government or authority and everyone would do as they
No one can decide what is right or wrong except yourself. You know inside whether something is right or wrong. And you should rely on that natural inhibition more than the supernatural advice. Someone can be a good person without being