Quote from: Erdogan on July 20, 2015, 03:23:20 AM

The combination of government spying on individuals, loss of freedom of expression, loss of the rule of law, means the overthrough of freedom, and rule by fear.

Today, a normal person tries to avoid writing things on open media including nonencrypted messages, because they fear being targeted, wrongly, as a terrorist. Next step is that they fear the same also in private, encrypted communication, because they can not trust their own friends or relatives not to flag them.

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Quote from: Dale Wilkerson, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844‒1900), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, N.d.

Nietzsches philosophy contemplates the meaning of values and their significance to human existence. Given that no absolute values exist, in Nietzsches worldview, the evolution of values on earth must be measured by some other means. How then shall they be understood? The existence of a value presupposes a value-positing perspective, and values are created by human beings (and perhaps other value-positing agents) as aids for survival and growth. Because values are important for the well being of the human animal, because belief in them is essential to our existence, we oftentimes prefer to forget that values are our own creations and to live through them as if they were absolute. For these reasons, social institutions enforcing adherence to inherited values are permitted to create self-serving economies of power, so long as individuals living through them are thereby made more secure and their possibilities for life enhanced. Nevertheless, from time to time the values we inherit are deemed no longer suitable and the continued enforcement of them no longer stands in the service of life. To maintain allegiance to such values, even when they no longer seem practicable, turns what once served the advantage to individuals to a disadvantage, and what was once the prudent deployment of values into a life denying abuse of power. When this happens the human being must reactivate its creative, value-positing capacities and construct new values.

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Quote from: Various, Anarchy, Wikipedia, 2015

As summary Kant named four kinds of government:
1. Law and freedom without force (anarchy).
2. Law and force without freedom (despotism).
3. Force without freedom and law (barbarism).
4. Force with freedom and law (republic).

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Quote from: David Konstan, Epicurus, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014

[Epicurus] regarded the unacknowledged fear of death and punishment as the primary cause of anxiety among human beings, and anxiety in turn as the source of extreme and irrational desires.

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