Isit Better to Be Feared or Loved

Is it better to be Feared or Loved? In today’s society princess, kings and rulers are few but our government stands on the same principles and views of those in leadership position. To fear or to be feared means to reverence or respect those in higher position. To love or to be loved is an essential part of life, but to be feared by individual is earned. Therefore I believe that to be feared is best when it comes to authority. In the early 1500s kings, princes, and rulers were set both based on their characteristics. This was one of the things that Niccolo Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia expressed. Chapter 15 concerning things for which men, and especially princes, or praised or blamed the author(s) stated that “for many have pictured republics and principalities which in fact have never been known or seen, because how one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, for a man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil”(Edward.Ch 15.The Prince. United States,Bantam,1513.Print) That is saying that fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails which shows that it is better to show love or friendship in such power. Men in leading positions in today’s society say much for our nation. As civil disobedience further points out saying, I please myself with imagining a state at last that can afford to be just too all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor (Thoreau David Henry.2009.Printed). This says much because fear is need to respect a person in comparison to loving a person because you can love a person and still not respect the things that they do. Therefore allowing men in today’s society that fear one another and respect one another is a lot better that loving in another for men in high authority. Finally, the same fear that one should have to one another also shows