What if the government offered you prosperity and security in exchange for heavily restricting your liberties?

Those who willfully surrender their liberty in exchange for prosperity and security deserve none of the three.

It would depend entirely on the situation. Morally I wouldn't consider the offer, it would have a certain feeling of selling your soul to the Devil. But if I were put in the situation people in Zimbabwe are facing it would be another matter. Who knows what I'd agree to if I believed that my family and friends were in danger.

I don't believe any country has true freedom, we're all restricted in some way or another. . .

I'd go down fighting. If I wanted to live in a country like that I'd move. People should pay more attention to the laws passed and notice the "riders" attached...everytime they pass a law ...we lose a freedom...how much is enough!

Thanks for allowing my rant!

I would fight to retain my freedom. There is nothing quite as invigorating as being able to do as I please. I don't need to be rich to be able to voice my opinions, work at a job I've chosen or to be able to marry, birth children and live. I like doing things how, where and when I please. I'll take the luxury of freedom over wealth and security any day....

Isn't that what the Government does already? Prosperity and security is a very thin veil indeed.

Never! I don't want to live in a police state.

We may take them for granted now, but our liberties weren't given to us as a present. People have shed blood for them. If citizens accept this "exchange" you describe, our society will go back hundreds of years.