(July 6, 2012 at 9:21 am)Stue Denim Wrote: Thats not my families comfort vs my freedom.
Your hypothetical involves some monster abusing his power and depriving people of their freedom, but playing head games at the start of it. Both options (and of course in that situation I would chose to myself be imprisoned) result in a loss of freedom for all.
So, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”