After 200 years, Scootaloo wakes up from magical stasis to find herself in the Equestrian Wasteland. She has to figure out a new place for herself when her friends and family are all long dead as a new threat looms on the horizon, one from her past.
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“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Probably the quote for this chapter.
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I wouldn't agree, but that is my opinion. I think security for another day is more important then the freedom to do what you want for today.
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Well, you two have certainly gotten the idea down perfectly. Yes, the ultimate question this fic, in particular the war between the Alliance and the Enclave, is to address is the debate of freedom vs. security. It all goes back to our friends Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who argued both sides of this, and really its subjective. However, I'm going to put my two cents in here.
In a world like Fallout: Equestria, sent back to what our philosopher friends called the State of Nature, there has to be some form of security. The debate here isn't about if you need security even at the sacrifice of freedom, its about how much freedom should be sacrificed in the name of security. Yes, to ensure a future, some things will always have to be sacrificed for the social contract, but the question here is which side is right?
Well, that's a question for the philosophers, because both sides have their advantages and their disadvantages.
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