Posted February 1, 201015 yr On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:17:12 -0700, Bruce Chambers wrote: > >They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary >safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin I'm sure when Ben Franklin said this, it was appropriate and worth saying. But in general, it's not true. Everyone except criminals deserve both liberty and safety, and if one is forced to choose one over the other, even if makes what others consider a bad choice, even if he makes what he later considers a bad choice, he still deserves both.
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