Something nobody seems to want to come to terms with: true freedom requires effort on your part. Wishing there will come a day where the final perfect law will

Something nobody seems to want to come to terms with: true freedom requires effort on your part. Wishing there will come a day where the final perfect law will be passed, or the perfect leader will come along, and you'll have liberty and freedom at last, is ridiculous. Freedom comes at a price. It always will. That means recognizing that it can put you in danger sometimes. An authoritarian regime would shut down crime much quicker than a free nation would. Does that make authoritarianism preferable? Hell no. I'd rather defend my property/person/family myself when the time comes. Because as you've probably heard countless times: "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."