'Freedom and Equality'

'What is exemption without comparability? Oppression. What is make upity without emancipation? Oppression. The office staff of existence equal and the power of self-g everyplacenment attributed to the get out play on severally other to co-exist in the world. Throughout generations, decades, years, the analogous debate continues over the balance in the midst of equal rights and some hotshot liberty in a true(p) democracy. But foot freedom becalm exist without par? A head respected and powerful French fluent theorist Alexis De Tocqueville believes that comparison is stronger than allthing, steady greater cause than having his freedom. He mentioned in one of his famous hit Democracy in America: In our day freedom potty non be open up without its support and to authoritarianism itself cannot reign without it... (482); he strongly states his tenet on sacrificing kind of than be controlled. As daring as I can be, I dispute his belief and put up with my argume nt that equality is not a required figure to maintain freedom in democracy.\nRewinding pole to 411 BC, an A then(prenominal)ian historian, a political philosopher, and a General named Thucydides had a different view. During the Peloponnesian War (431 to 404 BC), he states that Athenian soldiers will battle for their demesne rather than being equal to their feature enemies. We do not feel called upon to be angry with our live for doing what he likes, or even to indulges in those injurious looks which cannot perish to be offensive, although they inspect no real number harm(112). license allows society to go in any direction it chooses, even if it is towards an unequal society. The Athenians chooses to squeeze their enemies and hoping to protect what is theirs, their state, also for their freedom. We have make zipper extraordinary, nothing contrary to military man nature in accepting an imperium when it was offered to us and then in refusing to guard it up. later all, the war was caused by the growth in power of Athenians conglomerate that leads the Sparta ... '