Comments on: Eve Ensler asks “What is security?” http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/04/24/eve-ensler-asks-what-is-security/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:17:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Niklaus Pfirsig http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/04/24/eve-ensler-asks-what-is-security/comment-page-1/#comment-38834 Niklaus Pfirsig Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:25:45 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=6438#comment-38834 Security is a concept that is both subjective and relative. It's subjective in that each of us has our own fears and concerns. These fears and concerns are part of what forms our definitions of threats. And as security is a sense of being safe from threats, the parameters for security differ between individuals. Security is also relative. The importance of some threats are ever changing and when a different threat moves of to first place. It becomes more important to address that threat by risking you security in repect to other threats. Think of the stories of parents who place them selves in danger to rescue one of their children. I think this is why so many people are drawn to conservative politics. They fear the responsibility of making their own descisions and the politician say, "Let us decide for you. Let us make the laws to protect you from yourself and each other." It's a very false sense of security when ou are being protected from contrived or imaginary threats. Security is a concept that is both subjective and relative. It’s subjective in that each of us has our own fears and concerns. These fears and concerns are part of what forms our definitions of threats. And as security is a sense of being safe from threats, the parameters for security differ between individuals.
Security is also relative. The importance of some threats are ever changing and when a different threat moves of to first place. It becomes more important to address that threat by risking you security in repect to other threats. Think of the stories of parents who place them selves in danger to rescue one of their children.

I think this is why so many people are drawn to conservative politics. They fear the responsibility of making their own descisions and the politician say, “Let us decide for you. Let us make the laws to protect you from yourself and each other.” It’s a very false sense of security when ou are being protected from contrived or imaginary threats.

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