Terrorism: Public Safety More Important Than Freedom

Privacy is valued by every citizen but most know privacy can only protect so much. Privacy isn’t a strong armor of protection for our country. With national security disasters can be averted. The government’s highest priority is keeping the United States safe, so they must do everything in their power to fulfill that duty. The government can look into everyone’s private lives to get information they need, but that is the price a citizen must pay to keep the nation protected from disaster.

By looking freedom of speech, democratic government is not that important to have it without these rights. People prefer democracy to avoid tyranny or suppression of others. The citizens of the United States need to protect these rights because they are fundamental to the human being to be free, have liberty. What Founding Fathers did is not enough, however, United States’ citizens has to work together for a better place, a better country, a better government.

By doing so, they will create a secure environment within the state and have loyal citizens that are willing to fight for the security of country, regardless if it is right or wrong. When a democracy finds itself in a problematic decision, it should choose to put liberty above the security of the people.When this is done, the democracy is retaining the core values in which it was built. Punishment and fear is does not necessarily deter people from rebelling, so taking time to consider the views of the masses is needed. It is true that too much liberty hinders security but by showing the citizens that the government is genuinely concerned, they build a better relationship, and loyal citizens. Disloyal citizens are hazardous to any society and during war, this effect is magnified.

When a democracy finds itself in a problematic decision, it should choose to put liberty above the security of the people. It is true that too much liberty, hinders security but by showing the citizens that the country is genuinely concerned about their wellbeing, they build a better relationship and loyal citizen. Loyal citizen is what the country will need when it is fighting a war. Security is important for the success of the country and to have the ability to protect the country and to protect liberties but a country is nothing without its citizens.

He argued that without the arrangement of a successful government human being’s would live in the “state of nature.” Locke and Hobbes also differ because Hobbes feels that the sovereign should be all-powerful and individuals should not rebel against the sovereign. By giving up a few of their freedoms the sovereign can maintain order with the rest of their freedoms. Locke, on the other hand, the government is for the people and if the government fails the people it/they can be overthrown and put in place new officials that will protect citizens

We human beings need that fundamental happiness. Therefore, it could be said that society should not regard steadiness as the only common good and go extreme to preserve safety. Nevertheless, situations exist where people have to abandon some rights to be happy. Now, we can infer more by taking a look at the freedom of information. It seems very natural that freedom to know is one of the basic rights of us and therefore should be preserved with first priority.

For the sake of avoiding from the war, people construct the state. Duty of the state is -similar to Hobbes’s ideas- protecting individual’s life and properties. Of Spontaneous Moral Laws The root of the moral laws is inherent ... ... middle of paper ... ... everyone should make their decision by their own, otherwise it will be a dictate. Eventhough I definetely foresee the goodness of someone, for instance I might have a knowledge that that he hasn’t and would effect him, It wouldn’t be enough to direct his actions and life. I admit that everyone can’t make the best choises for themselves.

Therefore, in order to protect the future people of their beautiful country, they promised certain liberties which could not be taken away. Every single one of these freedoms is important for the United States of America. However, the second amendment is especially important to our nation because it allows the people to protect their freedom and defend themselves and the common good against an overreaching government. One reason we must have the second amendment is to protect the freedom for which our country fought so hard to win. The Declaration of Independence states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”[1] However, if these rights were ‘self-evident’, why did the founding fathers need to grant them to the states?

This is the issue of political obligation. According to many theorists, the basis of the long term stability of any government is the obligation its people feel to obey its laws. Obligation being a moral concept, ... ... middle of paper ... ...of action of any of their number, is self-protection. … [An individual] cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise.’ In treating coercion expansively, Mill clearly proposed to catch various diverse courses in which influential executors could practice compelling power on others plus the utilization of energy, roughness, and dangers thereof.

He holds that any form of ordered government is preferable to civil war. Thus he advocates that all members of society submit to one absolute, central authority for the sake of maintaining the common peace. For Hobbes, this is the only sure means of maintaining a civil, peaceful polity and preventing the dissolution of society into civil war. In conclusion, conflicts reason is people’s instincts about competiton on material sources to be more powerful than others to avoid anticipation with obeying the law of nature to avoid fear of death and war is the best option for Hobbes. Moreover, monarchycial government which control the law of nature’s compliance with controling everything can prevent war and any conflict in the society.