It depends on who and where in the world you ask. Freedom is more important to me. I would not want a system of "security" which "protects" at the expense of my freedom. when the government starts regulating every aspect of your life and especially when the people in power become hunger with it, the government is not regulating the system for the common good and becomes corrupt. Think of every dystopian society... 1984 by George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451, even communism and nazism. The world has experienced "security" through dictatorship and secret police, and banning books, and how to think. John Locke- the great philosopher- believed that men are free and equal and are not guided by green or selfishness, unlike Thomas Hobbes. Locke argues that people had the right to overthrow a government that didn't protect the natural rights to life, liberty and property.
Federal Judges are appointed for life because that is how it was written into the US Constitution. ... The writers of the Constitution gave federal judges job security because they wanted judges to be able to decide cases free from public or political pressures.
Answer:The most valuable end of government is the liberty of its inhabitants. No possible advantages can compensate for the loss of this privilege."—Patrick Henry1.
