Is being safe more important than being free?
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Trying to figure out how this new "War on Terror" justifies suspension of our Constitution.  In 1812, with a foreign enemy burning down Washington D.C., NO PART of the Constitution was re-written or suspended.  Emergency provisions did not ever give the president the power to unilaterally enforce the law before.  This was in the face of our absolute destruction with an very real enemy on our soil.  Now we have a fantasy enemy over-seas that takes occaisional potshots at us, which we created through our own failed foreign policies, so we now need to give up every fundamental legal and expression freedom we have?  Do Americans just not have balls these days?  Why aren't the real conservatives trying to "conserve" our damned Constitution which has weathered EVERY CRISIS before this?  I just don't get it.\n\nIf you want to hunt me down, I'll be easy to find in the postage stamp sized "Free Speech Zone".  When I was a kid, everywhere was a Free Speech Zone...except maybe in church.
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It would depend on the message you're trying to get across in your ad.\nIf  you wish to imply that using your doors and accessories will keep you safe from intruders and such, then you would use "safe and secure". Meaning that you will be safe inside and the doors will keep you that way.\nTo say "secure and safe" implies that the doors are sturdy and can be safely installed or used.
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It is a constant struggle not to give away freedom for the illusion of security, considering my desire for both. But of the two, I prefer the potential of freedom despite its dangers to the restrictions inherent in security.\n\nSecond, true security is, I believe, unattainable through control. Smallpox was contained, then we feared Polio. Polio was mastered, then we feared flu. Flu injections appeared...... we'll always have something to add, justifiably, that keep security somewhere in the future. Extend the analogy to financial or political and it remains true.\n\nDo these quotes help?\n\nH. L. Mencken:\n    The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.\n\nH. L. Mencken:\n    I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
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Yes, to a certain degree. Of course, money comes before safety/plain common sense!
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reliable i would say yes but, safe I don't think anyone is real safe in a place alone with someone u don't know .It's going to be a risk you'll have to decide to do or not.
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What a brilliant topic!  You coulld write heaps on this.  Three items I'd be prepared to give up? Let's see, I object to too much government interference in my life, but acknowledge the need for a central organising power.  So, perhaps look at what changes have happened, especially since 9/11, to personal freedoms. And what people have seemed to accept, more or less willingly, in order to ensure safety.  It's much easier to list three items you WOULDN"T give up.  I wouldn't give up right to free speech, for example.  It's too important.
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You have to keep safe distance.
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well, I have to tell something. I'm from an  Arabian country so, I do know this country very well. it's safe but   there is no freedom when you go there forget about  the freedom ,you won't be able to do whatever you want cause it's conservative country ,, they are strict but in general don't worry about  the safety it's safe, \nvenus
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Being safe is like breathing. You never want to stop. \n\nChance takers are accident makers. \n\nDon't be a fool! Inspect your electrical tools. \n\nDon't be safety blinded, be safety minded. \n\nExpect the unexpected. Gear up for safety. \n\nIgnoring a warning can cause much mourning. \n\nSafety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. \n\nWork safe today--heaven can wait.
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It will be less stressful for you if you choose which ever  ONE way you want to go. You can have a guiltfree existence for sure. Imagine having one foot each in two  different boats....fastest way to disaster ?
901339
of course. we want to be secured that we won't be hurt. no one wants to get hurt anyway,
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Sometimes it is.  When you have nothing to lose, you become more liberated emotionally and spiritually.  We often create false dependencies on the things and people we think we possess.  If we knew what's truly important and what to let go of, I think we would live much richer lives.
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I’d probably be more inclined to think that happiness is more important than success. But is it a right? I think you have the duty to yourself to be happy first and foremost and that includes being honest to yourself, otherwise you’ll never find true happiness. If along the way should you find success, that would be an added bonus but it would not be more important that finding true happiness. The gathering of material goods is by no means an indicator of having lived a successful or happy life. It just means that you had a lot of stuff that you’d be giving to other people when you die.\n\nPersonally though I don’t think there are any god given rights, as it were.
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Not at all. You should always have your personal freedom.
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speaking of safety in a hazardous environment is very important, for instance, smoking is strictly prohibited inside an oil refinery, we know what it can result if a fire burst in such place, itll be a disaster.thus making it productive if we exercise safety first, not only in an oil depot or such, but in any place of work and almost everywhere.
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If you have an up to date virus checker and a firewall you will be safe.  You may want to avoid dodgy websites like ones which offer free downloads of expensive software, music or porn.
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there is nothing more important than freedom and human rights...NOTHING .and thats something we should all take a very close look at today in this country [usa]... "those who will trade freedom for security will end up with niether"[ pass it on]... winston churchill