They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Trading away something permanent to buy relief from a present fear usually ends with neither in hand, because the fear returns and the thing you gave up does not. Safety bought that way tends to be temporary by design, while the freedom surrendered has a habit of staying surrendered. The exchange looks reasonable because the danger is vivid and the loss abstract. Later the proportions reverse.

When something urgent presses you to give up a protection or a right you would not normally part with, ask how you would get it back. If there is no clear answer, treat the urgency itself as the thing to be suspicious of.