Like most things in this world, opinions are bound to change with the times that they live in. Before this class, I put security to be for the common good, with the common good saying that the national security is over other types of security. After taking the class I would say my opinion is unmoved by what it started. The opinion I had on national security as the greater good since this is what keeps the world as we know it flowing is what I still stand by. The cases that support this stance would be the problems within Sierra Leone and also the problems with Tuvalu. Both have cases that can easily argue for the human security but I still stand towards the greater good over individuals.
In the instance of Sierra Leone, national security must be protected to ensure those within the nation are able to have human and ontological security. In this case, the national security would have been able to enforce borders so that the pillaging of the resources would not have occurred. The initial few hundred men that traveled over the Liberian border into Sierra Leone would have been met with force and the people within Sierra Leone would not have been subject to the harsh situations that they had to endure while the Revolutionary United Front. The RUF have done awful things to the people of Sierra Leone and these acts like cutting off hands and limbs are horrible and gruesome but these human securities and ontological security problems would not have risen if the national security was kept under control.
Another example of the national security coming over the others would be in cases of Tuvalu. The case of Tuvalu has a nation slowly being taken over by the ocean and eventually, it can possibly be fully gone. Besides the argument of global warming and climate change where the people are directly affected by the rise of the sea level so therefore they must be losing their ontological security, national security would rise above all of this. This is because if there is no literal nation then the human and ontological security cannot be kept. The nation is losing its security when the sea levels rise so, therefore, the national security is first to go then the ontological security of the people of Tuvalu goes after. National security matters to the Tuvalu people first since this would be a direct threat of global warming to show that could possibly make a difference in people’s way of life to stop it. Ontological security in Tuvalu can be argued as more of an opinion of those living there so it is easier to write off in other people’s minds. The actual fact that the sea level has risen is less of a point that can be pushed aside and made less than what it really is. This is not to say that the ontological security of the people in Tuvalu is needed to be kept, this says more than the national security is to trump this.
Like most places, the nation must be stable to ensure that those inside it can achieve the ontological and human security that they strive for. The greater good is achieved through stability within a nation and the greater good is what must be put first. The success of one cannot be put first over the nation, as seen in Tuvalu the security of themselves cannot supersede the nation. All in all, national security must be seen as the greater good to ensure that other securities can follow.
http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/resources/res_pdfs/ga-64/cc-inputs/Tuvalu_CCIS.pdf
http://standardtimespress.org/?p=5090
http://www.preventionweb.net/organizations/3031
In the instance of Sierra Leone, national security must be protected to ensure those within the nation are able to have human and ontological security. In this case, the national security would have been able to enforce borders so that the pillaging of the resources would not have occurred. The initial few hundred men that traveled over the Liberian border into Sierra Leone would have been met with force and the people within Sierra Leone would not have been subject to the harsh situations that they had to endure while the Revolutionary United Front. The RUF have done awful things to the people of Sierra Leone and these acts like cutting off hands and limbs are horrible and gruesome but these human securities and ontological security problems would not have risen if the national security was kept under control.
Another example of the national security coming over the others would be in cases of Tuvalu. The case of Tuvalu has a nation slowly being taken over by the ocean and eventually, it can possibly be fully gone. Besides the argument of global warming and climate change where the people are directly affected by the rise of the sea level so therefore they must be losing their ontological security, national security would rise above all of this. This is because if there is no literal nation then the human and ontological security cannot be kept. The nation is losing its security when the sea levels rise so, therefore, the national security is first to go then the ontological security of the people of Tuvalu goes after. National security matters to the Tuvalu people first since this would be a direct threat of global warming to show that could possibly make a difference in people’s way of life to stop it. Ontological security in Tuvalu can be argued as more of an opinion of those living there so it is easier to write off in other people’s minds. The actual fact that the sea level has risen is less of a point that can be pushed aside and made less than what it really is. This is not to say that the ontological security of the people in Tuvalu is needed to be kept, this says more than the national security is to trump this.
Like most places, the nation must be stable to ensure that those inside it can achieve the ontological and human security that they strive for. The greater good is achieved through stability within a nation and the greater good is what must be put first. The success of one cannot be put first over the nation, as seen in Tuvalu the security of themselves cannot supersede the nation. All in all, national security must be seen as the greater good to ensure that other securities can follow.
http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/resources/res_pdfs/ga-64/cc-inputs/Tuvalu_CCIS.pdf
http://standardtimespress.org/?p=5090
http://www.preventionweb.net/organizations/3031
Really good job with creating and supporting your argument. I really liked how you used the national security issue of Tuvalu to represent the need for national security over human security. While I might not agree with your point, you did a great job of identifying the importance of national security and the good of all other the good of a few.
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