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Which is more important?

Which is more important?

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I'd rather die free than live in slavery.
 
When you sacrifice your freedom for security you inevitably lose both.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Unless there are laws restricting movement or thought, then you can truly have freedom without financial security... the poorest person in the world is capable of this. Financial security enables more choice but nothing more. A poor person is just as free as a rich person in every sense of the word.
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If you're simply referring to freedom of thought and the ability to move freely, sure. However, most people will sacrifice some personal freedom in order to spend their time working to support themselves and their family. Without some financial security, i.e. a paycheck, most people will simply be free to meander down the road hoping to find a berry bush or a fat rabbit to kill and eat.
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
The arguement I am making is that choosing freedom or financial security is something that will vary between people and change depending on the situations they are in.

It is not freedom vs financial security in that either are absolutes, but more on a relative scale. Would I choose to live in China and be monsterously rich, or live in the US and live in a slum? Given the level of freedom in China is actually good for most people, I would choose to live in China. If the choice was to be poor in both China and in the US I would choose to be poor in the US
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I think when arguing the two we have to look at freedom as women in Iran do and your slum analogy is accurate. Would one prefer to be a woman in Iran or live in a slum?
 
Bodhisattva said:
I think when arguing the two we have to look at freedom as women in Iran do and your slum analogy is accurate. Would one prefer to be a woman in Iran or live in a slum?
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If that was the question posed in the OP, I'd rather live in a slum. That wasn't the question... and in fact as I've pointed out, the OP was too vague, poorly worded and ill-defined for us to all be in the same page. Perhaps it should have been worded differently, so we weren't stumbling around in the dark trying to figure out what the word "is" is. :mrgreen:
 
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