When a group of people chooses security in governance over responsibility in governance they lose their freedom and become serfs, required to perform services to their master.
A wise king arguing in favor of freedom for his people and in support of a representative government said, “the burden [of governance] should come upon all the people, that every man might bear his part.”
Many people today don’t want to ‘bear their part’ and rather want the government to do it for them: financing home loans, building cars, educating their children, providing health care, transportation, banking, and on and on. This results in serfdom.
Instead we should each ‘bear our part’. The gain of perceived security is not a justified reason for abdication of responsibility. Unless you actually want to be a serf.
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