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Originally Posted by churchfcrules
because of the posts in another thread, it got me thinking, at what price would we surrender our liberty?
to elaborate a little further, if a government said they were about to introduce measures that would irradicate most crime but with a considerable loss of civil liberty, would you accept it ?
i am not talking about the issue that we have at the moment with id cards, but things that reach much further,ie tracking devices on everyone, cameras in your own home, abolition of cash, real extreme stuff, but a gaurantee that most "serious crime" would be gone from our lives
what would you do
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It depends on the amount of liberty you would lose. E.G. phone tapping, cctv, monitoring of web searches do not affect your lifestyle, and are currently used
A) As a deterrent
B) As a method to catch criminals,
We know these are used and in general do not affect liberty per se. However searching of blogs, diaries, thoughts, etc are out of order without just cause.
All laws impinge on liberty by their very nature, however what liberty is prohibited is up for question. The liberty to commit murder is obviously repugnant and therefore banned.
However the liberty to say what one thinks and believes is a freedom that should never be curtailed.
Therfore I cannot answer the poll.