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Who's talking about North Korea? We're talking about South Korea, Japan, and the entire western Europe. > If you trade all of your freedoms for securities, yo
by yongjik 7y ago
Who's talking about North Korea? We're talking about South Korea, Japan, and the entire western Europe.
> If you trade all of your freedoms for securities, you too can have a totalitarian regime that keeps you safe.
Totalitarian regime usually have worse security because nobody can criticize the supreme leader and they can simply make an inconvenient news item (like an unsolved murder) go away. Your slippery slope isn't even in the correct direction.
No society is perfect, but it's quite possible to have a safe and free society. But you should be willing to make reasonable compromises instead of arguing from centuries-old aphorisms.
- umvi 7y ago> Who's talking about North Korea? The person I directly responded to was talking about China, which is YAGFTR (yet another gun-free totalitarian regime). > No society is perfect, but it's quite possible to have a safe and free society. That also lasts a long time without lapsing back into being YAGFTR? Japan was YAGFTR less than 75 years ago, same with a lot of currently "safe and free societies". I am skeptical that a gun-free society can last hundreds of years without it lapsing back to being YAGFTR but I suppose time will tell