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National Security Is More Important Than Personal Privacy.
Just wondering what you think.
 spunkmeyer  21 Feb 2009 02:47
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If by national security one would mean the personal security of each individual in a nation, then yes, personal security is more encompassing than personal privacy. Problem is, personal privacy is something that personal security takes into account. Invasion of personal privacy is invasion of personal security.
 
 justsumguy  21 Feb 2009 03:21
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They're all out to get you...and the call is coming from inside your house...

They're coming to get you, Barbara....

I just don't understand why a nation with the buying power of the United States is so paranoid about everyone gunning for them...
...that is unless they know they all are...
...but...that would imply that they know why...

...which, of course, they do. And they hide away like a kid that just broke a window because they know they deserve what is coming for them.
 
 vitiate  24 Feb 2009 08:10
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Personal privacy is part of freedom. Without freedom or the acknowledgment of it, America would never have been independent.
"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
-- President Thomas Jefferson. 1743-1826
 
 MaYbCaKe  23 Feb 2009 12:57
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Neither is more important because values are not absolute. Values are constantly balanced against each other. Drug smuggling is a risk to national security but it doesn't justify stormtroopers going into every citizens home and ransacking them for evidence of drugs. On the other hand staying home with your family is an excellent version of privacy but it doesn't mean building a bomb with your sons as a home project is something the government should not intervene to stop if they have the chance. Neither value reigns supreme - values need balance.
 
 Grenache  21 Feb 2009 15:11
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Protecting people from what others say isn't a matter of national security, but this government tries to make it such.

It is the reason we are in Iraq, and their is hardly a person alive with a thought process doesn't now know that fact.
 
 keepmindok  21 Feb 2009 12:12
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To protect freedom you have to allow freedom. If you give up too many of your principles to protect your principles then what have you saved?
 
 finsch  21 Feb 2009 11:50
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Without the Individual Person there is no Nation possible.
 
 AssetParis  21 Feb 2009 03:07
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 Without the nation, each individual is in a world of hurt.
by  verum
 21 Feb 2009 05:34
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