In the Socratic Seminar on Friday, the class discussed the topic “ should citizens be prepared to give up personal freedoms and privacy during a national crisis?”.
In my opinion, it’s hard to distinguish and find a balance between what “we” are willing to give up. But in reality, what are freedoms? We have already given up our privacy to technology and we aren’t actually free. Any little action is watched/listened to and we don’t have the freedom to give our consent. Freedom is difficult to explain and some of our privileges have already been taken away.
So we shouldn’t give more “freedoms and privacy” in a national crisis that they don’t already have from us. Yes it would be helpful in a crisis because it would help from devastation, but what else can we really give? The government does what they want to, so technically we have given up our privacy. They should be able to prevent a crisis and loss in society with the information already in their hands. We have been victim’s to the government all this time.
I honestly think that as users of the internet and the social media that comes with it, we have already given up all of our freedoms and privacy. As users of technology our lives are an open book, and anyone and everyone can find out anything they want to know about us if they try hard enough. Once we start using devices we almost automatically become hooked because it facilitates our lives, so I'd say we've already become trapped and in a sense we aren't free.
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