Genivaria wrote:Ardoki wrote:Promoting the general welfare of the population should include order and security.
The way I see it it goes even further then that, to me Egalitarian leads to order and security.
Liberal Democracies are far more stable and healthy then tyrannical dictatorships and monarchs.
Order doesn't need to be a priority, focus on freedom, justice, fairness, and equality, and order simply follows.
Yes, this myth that it is a choice between freedom and security, like the accompanying myth that authoritarian=orderly, needs to be destroyed. Tyranical societies are not secure. They maintain control by terror, and those who live in such societies live in constant fear and uncertainty, knowing that even the wrong words could see them arrested, tortured, even murdered. Until finally the people have had enough, and the whole thing ends in a revolution that may end up putting another dictator in power.