I AM William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my country men, here, in
defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men, and free men
you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom.
but most people don't want to be free they want to be safe, so
therefore I suppose ultimate safety means living in prison
"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have. For
example, the freedom of thought. Instead they demand freedom of speech
as a compensation." - Mickey Mouse
The early settlers had "freedom" simply for the fact that
there wasn't anyone around to intrude on it. You form into any
form of civilization, and your "freedoms" are only there
because they're enforced. What happens when those freedoms are
not enforce? Wild wild West: people taking "matters" into
their own hands, lawlessness, gangs controlling other people.
Are you talking about colonists? America has had
many periods of settling, and the settlers are more
associated with the treks out west, than the colonization of
the New World, in which case you should state the settlement
of the east coast.
The colonization of the east coast was less about freedom,
and more about financial and land opportunity. Yes, there
were some religious reasons, but that was less about
religious oppression, and more that they were sick of the
perceived moral decline of England (and that people in
England were sick of hearing them too).
blub85 on Saturday 17th September 2005, 05:42:17 (#19965)
The first freedom in the sentence is the "I do whatever
I like". If everybody had the freedom to kill and steal it would turn
into a big war, and that would be the death of freedom.
The point is to sacrifice a piece of the first freedom so we all don't
step on each other's feet, limiting our freedom to gain freedom.
"By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well--a fire in the minds of
men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its
progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest
corners of our world." - George W. Bush.
He's so full of shit, look for example @ Guantanamo...
That's about as naïve as believing that, under any circumstances,
you should not kill another human being. There are always exceptions
to the rule, and generally the exceptions involve bringing a greater
amount of good for one group of people, at the expense of another.
Most people haven't experienced oppression and so they
don't appreciate what freedoms they already have. Even worse is
when that cluelessness makes them whine and bitch when their
"freedoms," which weren't freedoms to begin with, are
taken away.
futurama - taste of freedom? (ey, that's my kind of
education :\)
what i wanna say is: your right. and i fear the day my
"freedom" is taken away from me, and i start to bitch
and whine around. because that day will be marked in my calendar
as "my life sucks now".
look what you have started...i hope your happy with yourself....like a kid
with a magnifying glass still above the ant hill on a sunny day......*tisk
tisk*
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