Whats more important? Freedom or stability in your life? Given the choice which one would you have??

Answer 1

i think i would choose the freedom to have a stability in my life and the stability of freedom..

Answer 2

I think the question contains a misnomer. An existence which lacked some sort of stability - which was, say, chaotic, forever moving and changing - could not be described as free in any meaningful sense of the term.

That said, the stable life is often associated with the premodern world (stable hierarchies, inherited roles, geographical and moral boundaries), and freedom with the modern (social mobility, equality of opportunity). Rousseau famously articulates the problems for the individual who is uprooted from the former and unable to secure a stable identity in the latter. Again, freedom presupposes some form of stability.

Answer 3

For the individual it must be freedom. If you are free you can create your own stability, but being stable does not necessarily bring freedom (see the answers on here about jail and serfdom). It may be different for a whole society because absolute freedom for a society is equivalent to anarchy, which is a frightening prospect, It would in that case be down to the nature of the society that one was in; a self-controlled, responsible society would be OK and freedom could be paramount, but in a violent and lawless society then stability might be better

Answer 4

Stability

Answer 5

Freedom to a point, if we are free to do what we want that means we are free to murder, rape, etc, so to some extent we need a system of laws which takes away some degree of freedom. However, this has to be balanced with I should be free to live and by that statement we impinge on someones freedom to take my life. Freedom is very important but you cannot have any freedom without some stability and law. The thought that anarchy will leed to a utopian society where everyone just gets along is simply wrong.

Answer 6

Freedom

Answer 7

Freedom definately, without freedom I do not feel stability, rather a sense of being controlled. If one does not have the freedom to go where they want when they want, the freedom to air an opinion, or just to say or do something silly because it will make them feel happy then they are nothing but a communist under control by their own mind and surroundings.
No freedom is a key source to a happy life with the adventure needed to sustain it.

Answer 8

One would say freedom over stability. Stability is security which never helps in life.

Answer 9

i think they're both important but i would probably go for stability ... just because you have stability doesn't mean you don't have the opportunity to make changes. With stability you have a direction and an idea of what to do if things should come to the worst...if everything was left for you to do freely then you may find yourself stuck when the worst hits you.

Answer 10

the last really free people lived during the stone-age, but thier freedom was still controlled by the food they followed. they were free to hunt this animal, or another, or starve to death.

However, as soon as the first farmer put down a plot of land, for stability, thus ended all freedom.

for he had a stable food source, so he had to defend it,by building walls, and paying some of his food as a tax, to the biggest brute, to fight off other btutes from staeling his food. thus kings and armies were created, and also taxs.

Until we abolis tax's, we will not be free, for even travellers have to work to buy food and clothing. the more stability you build into you sytem, the more rules, safeguads and thus the less freedom.

I think you will always want the grass on the other side of the valley, because it looks tastier, so the oppressed and secure will always harp on about freedom, and the insecure, but free to starve will always want some security in thier life.