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Happiness! [Security]

26 (31%)

Freedom! [Liberty]

58 (69%)

Total Members Voted: 84

[Josephus]

how do you know security will make you happy. Adventure is defined by risk. DF is a fun game because your dwarfs are never perfectly safe.

That's all very well, but I'd rather not die and have my corpse stripped of belongings by friends and family, thank you very much.

Someone is going to end up stripping you and cleaning you up when you die you know... it may as well be friends and family and not total strangers...

Yeah, but if this were DF, I'd die horribly in the front yard because God forgot to tell me to stay inside.

[qwertyuiopas]

There are many different levels of security. I would be happy with restrictions so that I know that if I go and take a walk through a crowded city, I won't get mugged for a few dollars, but on the other hand, being able to make mistakes(that don't lead to death or serious injury) gives a triumph to every success, because it was a result of effort despite risk rather than because even if it failed someone would make it seem like it hadn't. As things are currently, it's a fairly good balance between freedom and safety. Not ideal, but most people are generally safe, and few people are really restricted(except by the education system and all current beliefs that a nice looking sheet of educational paper is more important that the reality(could have cheated, could have put weeks of study before each test, only to forget it all a month later after the end of the year))

Canada is good enough for me! (though if I had to choose a drastically different balance, I would pick freedom, because one part of freedome is being free to help others and through that create a community far better than could otherwise be achieved in a theoretical "free but terrible life" scenario)