This question is in response to someone elses question, asking,
"so america why does our GOVERMENT KNOW more personal information about its free people-?"
It just seemed odd to me how people think we can't be free if we are not completely annonimous and secret at all timees to all people. Its as if they think that anything the government knows about you can and will be used against you. I wish someone would explain this to me because it doesn't make sense. Is it that Americans are insecure to the point that disclosure paralyzes them, thus making them less free to move? Help!
2006-09-22 15:25:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Americans sense of freedom is that we have total privacy, the only people knowing our personal stuff if we tell them. So that fact that the goverment is getting all our personal information means that we really techinically dont have that freedom.
2006-09-22 15:29:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Privacy and Freedom are two sides of the same coin - like heads and tails, day and night. Unfortunately you cannot have both simultaneously i.e have the cake and eat it. Can you want the government to pay your fees and not divulge any information? There are many others and with restricted resources the priorities need to be based on you surrendering some private information. Those who are law abiding need have nothing to fear. It is not always 100% but it is the best system I have witnessed by a long shot!
2006-09-22 15:36:57 · answer #2 · answered by Tom Cat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
privacy is a bunch of hokey.
The issue is that some people don't like you doing some things.
If the public eye extends everywhere, then cultural customs like privacy in sex etc.. are thrown out the window.
Personally I think it is a non issue.
Quite the opposite, loss of privacy = freedom
privacy = the right to exclude (or remove freedom of action)
part of the issue is policy/law. some people disagree with some laws and policy, and their "private life" is the area where they can easiest act in that manner.
In general though privacy is used to uphold the impact and exclusiveness of acts such as sex, and to enable backroom politics.
Without any privacy the state is the state
no room for a false front. but it gets into other issues anything involving "private"
the only way it could function equally is in anarchy.
and people have been known to get violent.
The privacy customs are in generally to protect people from being attacked for spoiling a moment or learning somthing they shouldn't know.
The big brother issue is inpart due to not being able to get mad at the much stronger police state. I.e. being "owned" rather then free. So abuse of power comes into effect.
It is generally enabling of "intention" and goals outside of command.
2006-09-22 15:32:03 · answer #3 · answered by intracircumcordei 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people feel it is an invasion of privacy because personal information can be given out by anyone to anyone, but it is a choice. When the government just acquires this information without the persons knowledge, whether they use it or not, makes many people uncomfortable.
2006-09-22 15:44:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can be free if we don't have privacy however it means we trust our government implicitly not to misuse the information they have and also trust the individual employees not to abuse their access to this information. You said it in the question - anything the government knows CAN be used against you, without our privacy we can only hope that it will not be used that way. Puts us back to the old days when the king ruled all the little people.
If you don't understand the intangibles of feeling free I don't think anyone can explain it to you.
2006-09-22 17:31:00 · answer #5 · answered by ash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Privacy affects freedom of space so that you can talk or write without anyone bugging you, as a certain famous president did in an election not too long ago, known as the Watergate scandal. It affects your freedom to communicate personal problems or information alone without anyone overhearing or overseeing.
2006-09-22 15:42:10 · answer #6 · answered by Got pretzels? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want the government butting into your business all the time then that's your prerogative. However, this country was founded on principles involving privacy and freedom. Let the president go be a dictator somewhere else......
2006-09-22 16:35:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All this is covered by the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution, which makes it illegal for the government to perform a search and or seizure without a warrant. Our president is seeking repeal of the 4th amendment of the constitution so he can fish for "wrong doers" . When that happens the terrorist win
2006-09-22 15:28:23 · answer #8 · answered by kniggs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you got it .......alot of people think that maybe we arent so free, if terror is threatened at all times, and the government knows everything, Americans now are less free than before, but that just me.....
2006-09-22 16:52:48 · answer #9 · answered by jessica w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fear,, many will fear, fear itself, the religious are terrified of the demons
2006-09-22 15:34:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋