2006-07-23 00:05:22 · 11 answers · asked by monkeyplanet 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
False. I (and some other famous guys) seem to believe that freedom is an innate quality (a natural right, maybe?) that is to be limited only when it proves beneficial to the common good, by a government we consent to be governed by.
Take a look:
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.
-Thomas Paine, Common Sense
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before." This is the fundamental problem of which the Social Contract provides the solution.
-Jean Jacques Rosseau, The Social Contract, Book I
Man being born, as has been proved, with a title to perfect
freedom and an uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of Nature, equally with any other man, or number of men in the world, hath by nature a power not only to preserve his property— that is, his life, liberty, and estate.
-John Locke, Two Treatises on Government
2006-07-23 01:21:58 · answer #1 · answered by eyad d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The price of freedom is the blood of patriots and tyrants. Live free or die.
I don't see the relevance of Rousseau or the French revolution to a discussion of freedom.
"In the same number of years it took America to go from the Declaration of Independence to the signing of the Constitution the French went from beheading their King to the coronation of their new emperor. The mindless slaughter that filled the gap was the translation of French political philosophy into practice" (1)
Or in other words Rousseau's social contract. Which has nothing to do with freedom.
2006-07-23 20:16:59 · answer #2 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom isn't free!
And we should make some of those pay who are taking away our freedoms!! The Patriot Act!! What a crock of BS. And getting arrested for wearing an anti-bush T-Shirt!!
PS: Iraq has NOTHING to do with freedom! We just destabilized the whole damn region and guess who wants control of it now? Would Iran sound familiar????
2006-07-23 07:15:37 · answer #3 · answered by cantcu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True...freedom is not free, think about all the people who gave their lives for freedom in World Wars 1 and 2, Korean War, Vietnam War and the wars going on world wide now. God bless our troops!~
2006-07-23 07:11:48 · answer #4 · answered by Sue F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True. Nothing is 'free'. If you want to live the way you think is best, sometimes you have to fight for it! America is the land of the free, yet each year the lives of very brave young people are lost protecting our freedom. That is the ultimate cost.
2006-07-23 07:09:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
False. Freedom is having the ability to participate in social advancements regardless of your race, creed, or class. Naturally we are social, mobile beings, who reject confinement and avoid isolation. Freedom is an intellectual awakening of the knowlege of being free from oppression, thus death. Freedom is life.
2006-07-23 07:12:45 · answer #6 · answered by China 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True. Freedom is not free. Why? Usually a person who has aquired freedom had to initially be oppressed or subdued, hence they had lack of freedom.
Usually, in order to obtain ones freedom force has to be used to overpower the oppressor. Therefore if one has to fight for their freedom, and it was not given to him for free, then freedom was not for free for that individual.....I think!?
2006-07-23 07:11:58 · answer #7 · answered by George 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody must be willing to fight for their freedom. The U.S. fought for it's freedom against England and has be willing AND actually fighting for it when needed ever since.
Yes, true. Freedom is never free.
2006-07-23 07:10:34 · answer #8 · answered by L A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
T. Freedom is not free, you have to pay for it, sometimes with your life.
2006-07-23 07:08:35 · answer #9 · answered by Mcduff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm true........because freedom is someithng you have to work for and working for something mean working for someone so in a way you not being free while attempting for the act of freedom...so freedom in my thought isnt free.
2006-07-23 07:09:52 · answer #10 · answered by Chelsea 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋