There are two choices in this matter. One of the choices is in order to have a so-called safe and secure world, you privacy must be taken away. The other choice is the exact opposite. To have an un-safe world where you can have whatever privacy you want. We live in an un-safe world today, but our privacy isn’t all ours. To have a completely safe world seems so futuristically untrue. Both options are not realistic. If I had to choose between either I would definitely have to choose to have an un-safe world where I have the amount of privacy I have.
In this world we live in now we do not have complete privacy but we still have a certain amount. A good enough amount to where we don’t have to worry about stopping in the midst of something so mechanical spiders can scan us. It is what everyone is used to. We have the freedom to say almost anything we want as long as it is not against the government. I don’t know about people outside of America but as far as American’s we do have a certain level of both. We have a neutral level of security and privacy.
We may be recorded on certain phone calls but there are not enough people to constantly listen to what we are saying over the phone. If someone were to call their phone company there is even a message that lets you know the phone call is recorded for certain purposes such as training. We are tracked. What we do on the computer, our phones, or even walking in person can all be detected. The computer keeps track of what you search of so that if you want to find it again you’ll be able to. Even with Facebook it keeps track of people you may know based on your computer code or calculates what you have based on your own Facebook. The phones that we have nowadays are easily traceable. With the GPS systems in them you can even find out what stores are closest to you. When you walk around you may not be tracked as easy but there is a application called Google Maps where it takes satellite pictures of different areas and you might get caught in the picture.
As you can see we don’t have the best amount of privacy but at least when we use the bathroom we don’t have a camera on us. There are certain rules that we have now that don’t invade our privacy. However our security isn’t a safe matter. There are people being murdered everyday. If you look deeply into that, we do have freewill. The people, who murder, choose to murder, whether it’s a crime of passion or not. The people who get murdered decide what direction they were walking in which they get murdered. Everyone has a choice. Addiction, you have a choice, just not once you are addicted… but you had a choice up until the point of addiction.
There is a flaw in everything as Danny Whitmore states in the movie Minority Report. If we had the system of a safe world, there could be something that may go wrong. We would definitely have to be safer than how Minority Report portrays how their security works. We would have to have more than having our retina scanned. There would have to also be a stronger system on finding the murderers. The ‘precogs’ are human and humans are imperfect. You cannot rely on something 100% to keep you safe if the system that is keeping you safe is imperfect.
A safe world is a perfect world, and that is impossible. If you’re okay with being strip-searched than I would assume you wouldn’t mind not having any privacy. However I would mind. I like the amount of privacy I am allowed. I don’t mind the un-safe world because it is what I am used to. We don’t have enough crime going on that makes me watch my back every second. I am just fine with how things are now because it’s realistically thinking.
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