These are two topics that have been debated for a long time. After 9/11 and the Patriot act these ideas have been pushed into the spotlight. They both have strong arguments making it hard to find a winner.
When the Patriot act passed, every body lost a little bit of individual freedom. But at the same time, it was supposed to make everybody a little bit safer, and it probably did, but does that make a loss of individual freedom and privacy worth it? Is it fair that the government can listen in to our personal phone calls? Read our emails? Even though most people haven’t done anything illegal, they still have a basic right to privacy and probably wouldn’t appreciate losing that. But if there’s one person, who’s phone calls or emails talk about blowing up a building, or planting a bomb somewhere, it could be worth it to save that loss of life. But if we keep losing more and more of our personal privacy, for the good of the community, where will it end? It would be potentially safer if we had video cameras in all our homes, watching us to see if we were making bombs, etc, but that would be an even larger invasion of privacy. There has to be a place where it ends.
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