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| Liberty | 47% | 114 votes | Total: 241 votes | |
| Order | 53% | 127 votes |
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Personal liberty is an absolute right that all people are entitled to. Community order and laws are subjective and interpretive and can often be unjust. An excellent example o...read more
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by Judy Joyce
IN A CONTEST OF IDEALS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND COMMUNITY: INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY IS CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED. The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution introduces to the citi...read more
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by Chavie Cyn
There is no freedom, nor are we really free without "individual liberty". Thus, my vote goes to LIBERTY. The question should not even be considered in a truly democratic society...read more
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Before even asking which should prevail, we should agree on the meaning of the word "liberty." The most generally accepted definition says that liberty is the ability to act acc...read more
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Personal liberty is what we all have in a democratic nation. It is the so called freedom which we all enjoy, well most of us that have the capacity to think for ourselves, thoug...read more
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Liberty World Of Individuals Throughout the centuries we have duplicated and replicated the structure of our laws to follow a standard based on the ...read more
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What is a community but a set of individuals who share some common interest, resource, or culture? Any group, any *set* is defined as a finitely related unit comprised of uniqu...read more
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by Tom Koecke
If this debate were under the subject of Mathematical Probability, then the answer would be that community order and law should prevail. Whenever the interests of a group of peo...read more
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by Will Kester
This title demonstrates what I dislike about debate. It forces one to be right over the other. I think we can have both, personal liberty within an orderly society. How? By...read more
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Give me liberty or give me death, these are not just words, these words are a mentality. It is a movement that started hundreds of centuries ago, when the idea of freedom was fi...read more
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How a person answers this question depends on how he or she understands human nature. "A person is smart," the old saying goes. "People are stupid." The implication is that, lef...read more
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by Bryan Solari
In reading The Social Contract, On the Jewish Question, and The Portable Machiavelli, it is clear that in order to make a judgment on liberty, one must judge both the social and...read more
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It is a basic human need to have free will. What does this personal liberty entail? Personal liberty is a need that all individuals have to decide what they will do with their...read more
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by T. M. Beeker
You are always free to do as you please, it is when your liberty harms community order that the law steps in to prohibit or stop your actions. It is difficult to decide which sh...read more
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