what are the disadvantages of individual rights?

Answer 1

The rights of the individual can get in the way of the needs of the state and that is why they are limited, and with a court order they can be violated.

For example you should expect privacy, especially in your own house and with your own conversations. However, if you are participating in criminal activity then the government can get a court order to violate your rights to gather information against you.

The problem is when the state goes around the pesky need for the court like the Bush Administration's warrentless wiretapping of electronic communications. This is the case that broke last year and has been in the news recently.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a non profit legal organization designed to enforce the Bill of Rights. Just recently they lost a case in the Supreme Court on the issue of the Bush Administration's Warrentless Wiretapping. The court ruled that since they couldn't prove that they had been wiretapped they couldn't bring a case.

Answer 2

The disadvantage is this: The individual rights of a person hurt the rights of a group. If fat people are eating McDonald's everyday and are getting fatter, we should protect their health by making the place healthier, at the expense of taste and cost. Now the honest, health-conscious majority must eat tasteless and expensive food because an individual sued the resturant for something he or she brought on themself.....I have nothing against fat people, just an example.

Answer 3

I would say no, but I am an individualist at heart.

Answer 4

Because we must all look alike, talk alike, "love" alike and think alike. That's the American way!

Answer 5

they don't achieve optimum utility.