“I prefer dangerous liberty to peaceful servitude’’.- Thomas Jefferson.
“I prefer dangerous liberty to peaceful servitude’’.- Thomas Jefferson.”
That’s what you call a “false-choice” logical fallacy.
Those are not the only choices. I prefer something in between.
Total freedom would be a chaotic hell, and peace as a slave would not be worth living.
Except for an occasional exception now and then, most societies have managed to find a reasonable middle ground between the chaos of unfettered freedom and an oppressive peace.
So, that Jefferson quote is rather useless since it hardly ever is the case in real life.