Freedom And Safety In America

Since America's inception, freedom and safety have been vital parts of society. Especially today, people debate on which concept is valued to a greater extent. H. L. Mencken once wrote, “The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe”. This observation does not exactly apply to today's society for numerous individuals desire freedoms without considering their own safety. Whether it is regarding people's right to privacy, race rights, gun control, and an assortment of other topics, people seem to crave certain freedoms, even if it is at the cost of their own safety.
Freedom is immensely valued in America as it has been the reason for creating the country in the first place. Several people came to escape religious prosecution
On November 16th, 2015, a gathering of nearly 150 Black Lives Matter activists traversed into Dartmouth Hall in New Hampshire, shouting blasphemy at the students. The students were pushed around and they received a colossal amount of racial slurs from the activists. Those activists compromised their own safety as well as the safety of innocent students over a freedom they don’t believe they had been granted. In cases like that, those people believed that the freedom they desired was more important than their own safety as well as others safety. A decent amount of these people feel they are unsafe because of the lack of their own freedom. Everybody relishes their right to privacy, albeit some to a greater or lower extent. The majority of individuals would prefer to have a right to privacy freedom. The only strong pro of not having a right to privacy would be so that the government could use specific information from people to assist them in tracking down people like terrorists, but the average man would most likely rather retain that freedom instead of sacrificing it. With the right to privacy, people of a higher authority wouldn't be able to use information to manipulate or blackmail another