What is more supreme for you, individual liberty or social order?

Answer 1

Without social order you cannot secure individual liberty - you have pure anarchy.

Answer 2

Individual liberty is supreme. Its included in and depicts kings and rulers. An Individual's liberty define the ethics and morals of such an individual.

Social Order requires an person's ethics and morals to be subjected to the will of another (like a king or ruler who is the individual), thereby diminishing the moral fiber and will of the person.

An individual who is reared in and excercises ethics and morals beneficial to himself and his fellow man follows no direction from society and requires none.

Individual liberty, stemming from the common law of england has only 5 basic crimes, all with real victims:

1. Murder,
2. Rape,
3. Robbery
4. Assult and battery
5. Fraud by contract

*Think about it for a moment. If an individual is aware that a certian action would lead to any of the aforementioned, that act would be avoided.

There is a definite difference in the definitions and usage of the words "Person" and "Individual". This is for a reason. An individual is sovereign, persons are fictions (creations of the society)...

Now with regards to "Social Order" lets consider this. Slavery is more than being forced to work fields and pickin cotton. Its being forced to do something against your will without due process or the acceptance of consideration.

Social Order provides for all its subjects to be compelled by the will of the majority. Slavery is a word that brings forth really ugly connotations, but never the less, Social Order subjects all its citizens to its own system of slavery and in its very form and structure, is slavery.

The compelled society we have become subject to has over 2 million laws, mostly victimless crimes. Who was the victim when you were going 10 miles over the speed limit? Who was actually damaged? Who could have been is ifrelevant if there is no actual tort. (See * above)

The principles of Social Order gradually attacks and degrades individual awareness (for lack of a better term), and essentially causes the corporation to think for you, to tell you whats best for you and how to live.

Ben Franklin said it best in his speech when he said "The man who sacrafices Liberty for Protection deserves neither Liberty or Protection.

Yet, Social Order has taught us that this exchange is mandatory and has even gone as far as not allowing the individual to retain their natural rights, of which Liberty is a part of.

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness... Only an individual can define these individually. Social Order can only promote, compell and enforce an idea (the will of the majority).

Answer 3

Liberty

Answer 4

Individual liberty of course. Being an individual is what life is all about without it you might as well be a piece of furniture. Paul Revere said it and I feel the same way,"give me liberty or give me death." Unless you have ever been truly free you may not be able to feel the depth of this feeling.

Answer 5

Individual Liberty, unfortunately we are a society of have and have nots. With the haves delegating the social order.

Answer 6

Individual liberties within and ordered society ... you can't one without the other. Absolute freedom steps on the freedoms of others. An unordered society is chaos.

Answer 7

Individual liberty=Social disintergration.

Answer 8

individual liberty. "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
~Benjamin Franklin

Answer 9

liberty

Answer 10

A mixture of both is the best, really. To have one without the other will give you an extreme.