2007-03-04 03:25:23 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Certainly not when the country we invaded wasn't trying to hurt us anyway.
The whole fighting for freedom thing is just Bush propaganda.
2007-03-04 03:28:03 · answer #1 · answered by tim 1 · 1⤊ 5⤋
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. Freedom gives everyone the chioce and chance to love. Not many people get to show their love in a fearsome dictatorship or an anarchist society.
This can be seen in abusive relationships as an example. The children never learn how to love when all they see is the back of hand or worse on someone in the family.
Discipline is one thing, abuse of power is another.
So, in the absence of freedom, there is not enough love.
Peace.
2007-03-06 14:42:55 · answer #2 · answered by ringolarry 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't take a "fight" or violence to be free. Ghandi knew that nonviolence would free India from British oppression. All struggles are not won with violence. It takes courage to be free not violence.
It's a particularly American idea that freedom is something you have to "fight" for, but that's because of how America gained its independence and because of cherishing the historical "battles" within American history. It's a violent history that has just as much to do with taking freedom away as it does gaining oportunity for more freedom. Unfortunately, the present U.S. military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan illustrate how you can't violently force democracy onto a nation and then bring them freedom, which is completely illogical.
The ultra-patriots who would follow Bush's form of "bringing freedom" to another nation haven't given enough thought to what freedom really is, which again, is a function of the individual not what a nation provides.
It's an illusion to think you can "fight" for freedom, even when one group is responsible for the oppression against another group. One group does not gain freedom when it has won the war against the other group. You are ultimately an individual, and if you choose to conform to a group at the expense of acting upon your own personal freedom, it is your own fault. In the worst oppressed nations of the world these people still have freedom TO LEAVE (though they may lack the practical means to leave)--and anyone who says there are people who "have no choice" don't want to believe that the individual is ultimately responsible for his or her own freedom. Even in the U.S. where so many people tout how "free" they think they are, there are many who actually live like slaves. They conform to the whims of the fickle majority. They develop a herd mentality and then mock you for not going along with the majority (the "American" way for some). They are not really free as much as they are simply conformists.
2007-03-04 06:00:02 · answer #3 · answered by What I Say 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Since I could write entire novels based on your question, it seems appropriate to turn it around, thus getting a much smaller list for the sake of time:
Ask this instead "When is freedom not worth fighting for?"
I can't think of a single answer.
2007-03-04 03:45:37 · answer #4 · answered by Synapse 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Freedom is ALWAYS worth fighting for. I don't really know what you mean by this. There are way to many sympathizers out there..Meaning.. People say well since you are already here, heres all this free stuff.. Do you know that illegals can get more free aide than citizens can????
2007-03-04 03:29:53 · answer #5 · answered by iafarmboy2004 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Freedom is worth fighting for any time, if you really think that your freedom is being threatened.
2007-03-04 03:32:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
confident! i'm Irish, i be attentive to what scuffling with for freedom is like. we could of been imprisoned killed, gased, tortured and extra of our very own accord if it wasn't for freedom warring parties. My great-grandfather fought to maintain my kin in the process the undesirable years in Irish society whilst the English invaded and stole our six counties (what may be interior the U. S. "states"). So, confident, be chuffed and don't take it with none attention you have freedom, it got here at a cost of hundreds of persons's lives, undergo in suggestions that.
2016-10-17 06:04:39 · answer #7 · answered by corbo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When it comes to the safety of human beings.
2007-03-08 02:37:25 · answer #8 · answered by sunflare63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you have nothing else to loose - or at least nothing which you value more than freedom.
2007-03-04 03:33:50 · answer #9 · answered by John M 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
always when you take freedoms you take more than you do with murder you take the soul of a person
2007-03-04 03:59:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋