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by Dr_Paine on March 24th, 2007
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" - The actual quote is bit more nuanced than a simple either/or fallacy would suggest.
The key modifiers are "essential" and "temporary".
There, of course, can be an absoulte of neither. Absolute security is fascism; absolute freedom is anarchy.
It is a careful balance; ergo, the constant debate over where that fulcrum properly rests.
Ah, the search for the golden mean - the happy medium! Bless the pragmatism of the moderate!
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