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Originally Posted by Milarepa
My post was not about living in an entirely free, entirely safe society. In fact, it is just the opposite. You can EITHER have freedom or you can have security. The two principles do not co-exist very well. It seems to me that too many Americans have already decided they would prefer security. We will pay for that some day.
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That is not entirely true, actually.
Firstly, you can have neither and that is where the US and others are heading. What they do is called security theater and is only designed to appease the general populance. The effectiveness is almost zero but a politician doesn't want to be seen as doing nothing even if the alternative is pure bullshit. Ditto for offshore drilling.
But you can have reasonable security and still have a very high degree of freedom. It is simply hard to do and not as shiny and media effective as the general nonesense politicians perfer.