Anyway...liberty occupies one end of one axis, and on the other I place security
I would disagree with you on this. For example, imagine a cliff. It looks interestingly bumpy and hollowy, it's probably climbable. But if you fall off, you die on the jagged rocks below.
Now suppose you have a climbing harness and a rope and a safe belay from the top. You have more security. Do you feel more, or less, free to climb the cliff?
Being safer would make me more free. So I don't see these two as opposites.
If predators were constrained from attacking me, that would make me more free to go where I want, at the hour I want, dressed the way I want and in the company, or lack, that I want. Being safer would make me more free.
In my previous experience, the people who see freedom and security as opposites are the people who don't fear being hurt by other people's freedom. In other words, the predators.
Now, I don't picture you as a predator, so maybe I need to rethink that. But I believe my illustrations that safety can make you more free still stand.
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I would disagree with you on this. For example, imagine a cliff. It looks interestingly bumpy and hollowy, it's probably climbable. But if you fall off, you die on the jagged rocks below.
Now suppose you have a climbing harness and a rope and a safe belay from the top. You have more security. Do you feel more, or less, free to climb the cliff?
Being safer would make me more free. So I don't see these two as opposites.
If predators were constrained from attacking me, that would make me more free to go where I want, at the hour I want, dressed the way I want and in the company, or lack, that I want. Being safer would make me more free.
In my previous experience, the people who see freedom and security as opposites are the people who don't fear being hurt by other people's freedom. In other words, the predators.
Now, I don't picture you as a predator, so maybe I need to rethink that. But I believe my illustrations that safety can make you more free still stand.