What is more useful: freedom or peace?

What is more useful: freedom or peace?


Author: Abdul Zahra Zaki

28/8/2017 12:00 am

After a desperate dialogue in politics, a friend asked: What is the best; freedom, safety and peace?
His question implied an answer. He wanted to emphasize the importance of the security of the individual and the society when security is threatened and the primacy of peace over freedom. He even put this conclusion in a clear sentence in its outcome when he came back to say that an innocent prison sentence, even with its injustice, Of his death sentence.
This is a pattern of forced choice in which one has to give up one of my choices (freedom and peace), which is one option.
What is freedom, if not peace? What is peace, not freedom?
It will be impossible to separate the two options (peace and freedom); to relinquish one is not conducive to the other.
While we can also ask: Why choose between the two?
Freedom is the principle of a guarantor of peace. Non-free societies store in their depths potentials of violence that can be latent, whether by the community itself against one another or by the authorities in force. Freedom is the best way to achieve the state of peace and harmony between society itself and between it and its authorities.
But freedom can not be achieved without peace.
Unless freedoms operate in a true environment of peace and security, they remain pure forms of freedom, even false, and present their distorted and distorted presentations of freedom itself.
It is true that in circumstances where peace is threatened, we accept the relinquishment of aspects of our freedoms, concessions that may sometimes be shared and colluded between individuals and the society itself and between them and their authorities, but they remain concessions that bear the opportunity for the rebirth and development of freedom. Whenever freedom is not as entrenched values ​​in the culture and social behavior and the more the legislation that supports them fragile and reversible and recoil.
Peace itself can not be achieved without a firm foundation for the belief in freedom.
Any distorted view of freedom, and any will to restrict, when it is open and tyrannical, is legitimate for violence, whether visible, hidden or delayed.
This is how the distorted forms of peace that appears to be apparent and prevalent in societies governed by dictatorships can be understood; it is forced sleep waiting for the opportunity to explode and the evils of Pandora's box evaporate as soon as the iron grip of the dictatorship under the hood of the Fund relaxes.
Peace and freedom can not be separated.
Peace is the opportunity for everyone to enjoy freedom while freedom is in complete confidence in peace, peace with the world and with self.

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