Freedom vs Security: Freedom at any cost?

Is giving up some of your freedoms a fair price to pay to live in a secure society? Narrated by Harry Shearer. Scripted by Nigel Warburton.

[Userhardrockfan]

aristoteles said: "Who prefers security instead of liberty, is a justified slave" 
(not sure if i translated it grammatically correct)

[jonathanduncan]

If you're going to imagine an extreme world without laws, governance, or society, you must also imagine an extreme world where one man decides your fate. I'd personally take the freedom.

[laessencia]

Beautiful illustration and message. Thanks for sharing

[alphamasterevi]

Thomas Hobbes lived from 1588 to 1679, so he was 30 years old when the Thirty Years' War began in 1618 and 54 years old during the English Civil War (1642-1652).
Just to give historic context to his philosophy. Today, given the experience especially in the 20th century, we wouldn't arrive at the same conclusion (though this idea of security vs freedom is still very much present in our time, except that the leviathan takes the form of a dictator or otherwise autocratic ruler who offers relative economic prosperity in exchange for political inactivity).

[tammybezy]

Well the freedom vs security argument is that both is needed and only the middle ground is needed.

[Kitkat-]

We don't have to choose between one and the other. But if tyrants try to force us to choose, assuming we'll choose safety under their boot, I'll choose freedom every time.

[DoctorMonitor]

*Insert something about Persona 5 Mementos Depths*

[richardbanks]

Freedom and liberty arent the same thing

[derekmiller]

This is one of the easiest of false dichotomies to see through.
His first contention rest that people want security and then he proposes a way to provide it but then negates the fact that if we were in a free world there would be nothing stoping anyone from coming together on a said mutual basis for the same commodity (security) and could do so without by definition giving up security by allow an entire group of people to have all the guns while at the same time holding that all people are bad and want security at the same time .

[Frogstand]

like my parents say with everything there is a balance and I think this is no exception

[vijaynyaya]

Where can I get these posters appearing at the end?

[midgetwars]

And somewhere there is a good balance of security and freedom. 

[lorezemi]

I can't believe it can be this good

[MisterTwist]

i wish there was a way to buy all the final images to put up in my room

[dittoking]

Is it me or does he sound like principal Skinner

[Scarshadow]

I think we should start looking at this less as an "either/or" thing and more as something along a spectrum.

[freedom]

Security is important but freedom is most.

[PMunkS]

King eh? Well, I didn't vote you! How 'bout a social contract that merely commits to the non-aggression principle?

[marvinmartinsYT]

I’d rather freedom than safety. You can’t have safety without freedom.

[zatoichiable]

The art of fighting without fighting - Bruce Lee