In “Security, Liberty and the Myth of Balance: Towards a Critique of Security Politics” by Mark Neocleus page 134, under “Security, Sovereignty Prerogative” the quote I believe summarized the whole argument of the idea of a balance between security and liberty is “The search for security is thus the driving force behind the creation of absolute sovereignty, derived in turn from the supposed absolute liberty of the individual in the state of nature.” If you don’t put any restriction in liberty, how can you provide security. Although Hobbes and Locke, both have different theory on what provides security from liberty.
In the quote “The search for security is thus the driving force behind the creation of absolute sovereignty..” Hobbes believed men are so driven by their desire for pride, revenge and natural passions that no covenant is secure in the state of nature. Although he did believed that…show more content… In the movie is well known that the government lost its legitimacy. The government of Gotham city was no longer protecting its citizens like it was supposed to. As locke argued, in the law of nature every individuals has the ability to protect themselves against others. But individuals were vulnerable to the invasion of another individual. Regardless of the type of government, the point of “commonwealth” is to maximize the protection of property, police force, laws. But Gotham city’s government was no longer maximizing the protection of property, rather it was making life less safe for the citizens in the city. And the quote applies tremendously to the theme because; the people of Gotham would have been safer under the law of nature than under the corrupt laws of the government. Therefore Batman had the right to
