Thread: What would you prefer? Peace or Freedom?

Originally Posted by user_name

"No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses."
-Vladimir Lenin
Peace is better. I bet you are an Americana. I mean just look at the caos at Iraq, and ironically the Iraqs hate americans, because the Americanas want to save 5 cents on oil and kill the "terrorists".

im from Romania actually ,in the middle ages we hade to fight for freedom almost every year so this why i think to have freedom is so important
and pls dont make my start talking about communist or about so-called "wars for peace" of the usa

I love the freedoms I have here in America. Freedom, definitely.

If I lived in somewhere like NK or China, I wouldn't have freedom OR peace. I'd always be scared that if I said one wrong word I'd be gone in the middle of the night.

Peace is higher ranking in my book.

I don't really see how either will ever be achievable.

Where I live we have 'freedom'. But to what extent?

We have a high incarceration rate. We have lawyers, interest groups and the state of California setting trends, laws and ways of thinking.

To truly have any peace or freedom here you need to be in that rich upper bracket of the population. Then again if you are... see the comment about lawyers.

I would not say that we are a true police state but I do believe that we are moving towards one.

Interesting read: Police state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Either way - most of the problems seem to revolve around money on way or another. Money = power.

I would say freedom... I would rather live my own life with my own decisions than let someone else decide for me. Even if this involves conflict.

On a side note, people could argue that both freedom and peace are impossible concepts. Our choices are defined by the environment, or situation, we are put in. And our choices are set. So in that aspect, none of us are actually free. And peace cannot be achieved while human emotions exist. Greed, anger and hate - all of these things disturb the peace.

Just food for though...

Fox

voted for peace because if there is freedom surely there wont be peace because there are many pieces in the society who with their freedom are waiting to make every moment a world war.

Definitely Freedom. Although It would be nice to not have to fight for it and have peace also.

Why does it only have to be one or the other? I vote we have both, it's our natural rights as human beings to have peace and freedom.

There r no obsolute freedom, so I choose peace.

Peace.....