Yes, it’s all trade offs. Liberty for Security. It’s a barter system.
Discussion
You can’t trade liberty for security. There is no security without liberty. And you can’t gain liberty alone in this world. Which is why we try to wake people up to the lies. It doesn’t help when you just say if you don’t like it then leave. Why defend the slave masters? There are more of us than there are of them.
Then fight, those are the choices. Fight or flight.