“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.
Really? I think it’s rather prescient on the part of Mr. Jefferson. It describes socialism to a T.