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Monday, February 6, 2017

Freedom and Equality

What is immunity without compare? Oppression. What is adjoinity without freedom? Oppression. The power of existence equal and the power of self-rule attributed to the will depend on each other to co-exist in the world. Throughout generations, decades, years, the same think continues over the balance between equal rights and individual freedom in a dead on target democracy. But can freedom still exist without equality? A well prise and influential French bland theorist Alexis De Tocqueville believes that equality is stronger than anything, even off greater cause than having his freedom. He mentioned in one of his known work Democracy in America: In our twenty-four hours freedom cannot be realized without its support and to despotism itself cannot master without it... (482); he strongly states his ruling on sacrificing rather than be controlled. As daring as I can be, I challenge his belief and ache with my argument that equality is not a required agent to maintain fr eedom in democracy.\nRewinding back to 411 BC, an Athenian historian, a political philosopher, and a widely distributed named Thucydides had a different view. During the Peloponnesian War (431 to 404 BC), he states that Athenian soldiers will battle for their body politic rather than being equal to their own enemies. We do not feel called upon to be unfounded with our neighbor for doing what he likes, or even to indulges in those pernicious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they chatter no real defame(112). Freedom allows society to go in any direction it chooses, even if it is towards an unequal society. The Athenians chooses to stir their enemies and hoping to protect what is theirs, their state, also for their freedom. We absorb done energy extraordinary, nothing contrary to human nature in accepting an pudding stone when it was offered to us and then in refusing to give it up. after all, the war was caused by the harvest-festival in power of Athenian s imperium that leads the Sparta ...

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