The Price of Freedom

What is the price of freedom? War, famine, anarchy, terrorism and any manner of insanity that afflicts humans? Are we to sacrifice our right to free speech and right to personal privacy just because of a few mad individuals? There are several problems plaguing the world at the moment. Humans are the source of most of them. As for the rest, however, the solution is not regulation, but proper upbringing. There is no cure for human madness. The madness runs in the blood. However, regulation can only serve to drive that madness underground where it may grow unseen and unregulated. More insidious means will be devised in order to bypass the monitoring. The results are obvious: The madmen continue to hatch their insane plans and the common folk are increasingly controlled by their governments. This probably sets the stage for dictators to pull their slimy hides on top, exercising their control over an apathetic country. A country where people do not bat an eyelid over an extra camera installed to monitor a public place for their "protection". A country where the authorities can imprison a citizen without reason. This is possible in a place where freedom is sacrificed in the name of peace, and where peace is synonymous with freedom despite all the crime and unrest. There is no feeling of freedom in wartime chaos, neither is there proper freedom in a tightly regulated place.