Blog # 2: which is more important, freedom or survival?

Honestly, that is a hard question. This is a hard question to answer because I can see some good points from each of the questions, but I would have to choose freedom. I choose freedom because if one is merely surviving, is it worth to have almost no say? Now I am looking at surviving in the sense of limited say and/or slavery in this instance. I do not think it would be worth living as a mere extension of someone’s will, and I would rebel, but do it in a more subtle way if born to it, but I would first revolt and defend my own freedom if I where forced into it. So in that regard I would choose freedom. Honestly, I love my ability to choose what I want to do too much to give it up involuntary to someone I do not know. No obviously I would not want complete freedom, because eventually you get to anarchy, and ironically it goes from freedom of doing anything you want to just surviving in such a stage. So from this view, I would choose freedom but not pure anarchy, there should be some form of taboos/limit. However I do see the advantage of surviving, because you do get the chance of reinstating your freedoms. But as I said earlier, it would depend on what the conditions of the “survival” are. If it were, like I stated earlier, like slavery I would say never. But if the lifestyle were more like a protectorate state, I would not mind living in those conditions for a while.