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Interesting Comment on Security
Topics: Insights, Security & Insecurity,Quotes, Philosophy, Privurity Recently, I came across a simple, obvious, but profound statement in a paper on social cohesion. The quote is: --- Public opinion has a certain sense of risk in everyday lives. But security is not a self-explaining concept. Like for other fundamental dimensions of human life like welfare, health, happiness, it is not easy to give a simple and broadly accepted definition. Security implies and means different things for different people and societies. Despite its difficulties, the concept of "security" give us a broader and better frame to locate our problems, understand society's demands, and to design suitable answers than the concept of "crime" or even criminal justice. The idea of security has many connotations. It has to do with the idea of a stable and predictable environment, but also with the idea of absence of harm or pain. There is not absolute security since life itself is a risk and death is the bigger uncertainty for human beings. --- From "Crime and social cohesion in Europe: Social change and the new problems of western European security" [pdf] by Diego Torrente. Department of Sociology, University of Barcelona. I especially like the sentence, "There is not absolute security since life itself is a risk and death is the bigger uncertainty for human beings." Some big problems arise as people seek 100% security in life, not realising that such a goal may, itself, make life unlivable. J.D. Abolins
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Christopher Ingram
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(2.4.07 19:47)
Not even death and taxes are certian any more. From a very young age, people are taught absolutes. Vegetables are good for you and sweets are bad. Violence is wrong and not tolerated. Criminals are bad people and good people don't get arrested. Then we get older, and are exposed to the world. We find out the hard way that nothing is black and white. Life is give and take. Sadly, no mater how early many people realize this, for some reason it tends not to be applied to security in any form. Security, be it in life or computers, is all about managed risk. What are you willing to gamble for a chance to gain?
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(11.5.07 14:05)
I really liked the way you said it. Todays security is far from being ideal but improvements are still being made as we speak. Let's wait to see what the future will bring to us.
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