Is freedom worth dying for?

Question

There seem to be a lot of people that are willing for others to die in the name of freedom, but how many of them would actually give their own lives?

How do you define freedom anyway? Have there ever been dictatorships where the people who lived under them were still happy and lived fulfilling lives?

Answer 1

i will tell you this, honestly. i would die for my children's freedom. but no-one else's. if my kids lived in fear of oppression i would not give my life gladly,(i want to spend a long time with them both.) i would give it though, and with all my heart.

Answer 2

You ask a lot of questions instead of just one.

1. Freedom is worth dying for. So is Liberty. The two are not the same. Look these words up in your dictionary. --It is an ancient saying that it is better to die on your feet as a man that to live on your knees as a slave. And anyone who dons the military uniform does it with the full knowledge that he or she very likely will face that possibility once during their career, if they stay in uniform.

Frankly, I don't think you have examined the ill fit between your initital headline question and your second question.

2. Freedom is the absence of tyranny and forced control by others.

3. No dictatorship can be good. Dictatorships are contrary to the idea and expression of freedom. Even a dictator is unhappy even though he/she is the ruler. Stalin, for example, lived in a single room with a six-inch-think blue-glass window and never got to just to walk on a sidewalk and say "howdy" to his neighbors. And Hitler spent his final years in a bunker. Get the idea? Therefore, no one can live a fulfilling life under a dictatorship. The first thing the Russians did, once the USSR fell, was pull down the statues of Lenin and Marx.

And with all the advantiages and benefits of Communist Party membership, no more than five percent of the USSR's total population ever joined the "party".

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Answer 3

There’s a sayin’ my wise friend once said:
“You live for the cause, you don’t die for the cause”.
If it comes down to it the smartest thing is to try your best to survive! However, if you end up dieing for it, at least get the world to see you die for what you believe in that way the other sayin’ becomes true, “They can kill one person, but they can’t kill us or jail us ALL!” and “Safety in numbers my friend, safety in numbers…”

I define freedom as the following:
True freedom is the freedom of everyone and everything, for if they are not free with me I will never become truly free.

The answer to the Dictatorship Q:
There has never been a Dictatorship for The People.
A power position such as that is mercilessly corruptive faster then any other… Because the definition of Freedom is only left for one or a few to decided for themselves and for no other to define their own freedom for themselves, which takes away so many great things that the human spirit possesses alone…

Answer 4

I like to read the answers to these questions before answering. It is funny to see how many text book answers there are here.

First let me clear some things up. For all those edgar to quote that freedom is not free, serve in War and tell me if you agree later. The truth is that freedom is free for those that risk nothing for it. Unless you have been to war you have not paid for your freedom.

Second: For those quoting Patton, I like Plato better: "Only the dead have seen the end of war".

For how you define freedom that is hard, cause as much as we claim to have freedom, we are a country full of restrictions and censorship. Because people have forgotten the basic rule of the government, "The people are the government". While it may not be necessary to go to war for the country, people should participate in the government that provides those freedoms, other wise you are giving them away.

Answer 5

Yes and NO. How do you know they weren't in the military when we were not at war with anyone.
Do you like everything you have and can do now here in the USA?
Freedom is choice and self determination.

Starting tomorrow on tv and the radio it is announced you cannot go to college unless you go to the one someone makes you go to. You cannot leave your house after 10pm. You have to show id everytime you go some where. You cannot use the internet. You cannot listen to certain music you cannot wear certain clothes. You must attend the church of the states choosing. You must attend daily rally's to show the president how much you love him. You cannot marry the girl or boy you love. They kill your parents because they spoke out against the government. Your girl friend has been chosen to be some some big wig's girlfriend because she is pretty and he has power. She is forced to abort your child because you don't have the right bloodline.

Have you lost enough yet to join the underground?

Answer 6

I suppose only those people who have lived under oppresion and dictatorship can really honestly answer that. If you have had the freedom of speach and the freedom to choose all your life you really dont fully understand what it means to fight for freedom and die fighting for the sake of your family and the future generations.

Answer 7

freedom is worth dying for. a lot would give their lives for freedom they understand though it would not be them thta get the freedom but their people that would get the feedom. freedom is to completey free to walk where you want, talk to who you want, eat what you want and things like that. althought that is not possible as there are things such as private property and police to stop you doing things. yes there have been dictatorships where the people who lived under them were still happy and lived fulfilling lives, i just cant name one.

Answer 8

Yes. And I am more than willing to die for it.

Though I would much rather make someone else die for it. Remember, "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won the war by making the OTHER poor dumb bastard die for HIS country." George S. Patton, **** General, US Army.

Some more food for thought:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, that it is to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? FORBID IT, ALMIGHTY GOD! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!" Patrick Henry

Answer 9

Freedom isn't free. Yes, I'm am willing to die for it. I do not deceive myself into thinking that I'm going to get to have a nice namby pamby quiet death at the age of 107. You only get to live once and die once. I would like my death to be something worth dying for.

Being willing or not willing to die has nothing to do with whether you have ever fought in a war...it has more to do with how often you have come face to face with death..whatever the circumstances....so, to anyone who challenges my stance on this.....yeah, I know whereof I speak. And yes, the death I would choose would be a death worth dying for. You only get to die once....

Answer 10

How about this. Is freedom worth living without?

Answer 11

Freedom is worth dying for - without freedom we are nothing .The opposit is slavery whether its conscious or unconscious.Just look at the middle east they dont even realise they are slaves to the government.!!!!!!!!