Victoribus Spolia wrote:Freedom can indeed be peaceful, but security cannot be guaranteed beyond one's personal responsibility or the responsibility of the one who owns the land you live on.
Hobbes begs to differ: “Whatever the result of a war where every man is enemy to every man, also a result of a time when men live without other security than what their own strength and their own capacity to invent their give. In such a state, there is no room for a strenuous activity, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation, no use of imported goods by sea, no building suitable for any device move or lift things as require much force, no knowledge of the earth’s surface, no measurement of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, worst of all, constant fear, and danger of violent death and life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”
Victoribus Spolia wrote:Peace is voluntary in a free society, which is why it is dangerous.
Human dignity is also voluntary in a "free" society.