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- From: jbs@watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <19921123.175603.651@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 19:34:42 EST
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: freedom vrs security
- Lines: 21
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- Steve Gardner writes:
- > . . . People who give up freedom for security
- >never get either. Look what happened in Germany. Is it so long
- >ago that we have forgotten? Look then to Argentina or Chile.
-
- This is nonsense. There are numerous historical instances
- where people have sucessfully traded freedom for security. For example
- Finland after WWII gave up some freedom to the USSR in exchange for
- security from invasion. The English people gave up some freedom during
- WWII in order to better fight the Nazis.
- In the case of Germany it is ludicrous to suggest that the
- German people elected Hitler out of a desire for security. They chose
- Hitler as the best man to overturn the Treaty of Versailles. It was
- obvious even at the time that this would involve grave risks.
- In the case of Argentina and Chile the people did not give up
- freedom it was taken from them. In the case of Chile at least I see
- little reason for those who backed the coup to regret the result.
- The pro-crypto people would do well to come up with some argu-
- ments that do not depend on eccentric quasi-religous views of how the
- world works.
- James B. Shearer
-