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comment by wtbhi

Great question. Tough to answer though because it's likely that people will naturally opt in favor of security.

Say, for example, a total anarchic, completely free society was created. If there was a big ol bully, small people would band together in the name of security. To have absolutes of either, the other must somehow be mandated.





gordonz88  ·  4130 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know, are the two really as mutually exclusive as you paint them to be? Is there a reason why we can't have some security in a world based on absolute freedom?

wtbhi  ·  4130 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I suppose the difference is, as posters above have mentioned, how absolute is defined. For me, absolute freedom presumes the absence of government...state of nature type stuff.

motherlover  ·  4129 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, of course there will be some security in a world based on absolute freedom. Just not absolute security.