Less Privacy Is Good for Us (and You) #2

Privacy is a matter of keeping your personal life personal. I think everyone has their right to a private life, without anyone barging in to tell you how to live a certain way. Amitai Etzioni’s “Less Privacy Is Good for Us (and You)” is a very overly opinionated article and I think he draws a small subject into a huge controversial article. Etzioni states many ways on how our life and privacy is being watched; by ATM machines, DNA tests, HIV screenings, jobs and so forth. I would have to disagree with Etzioni, I think that everyone should be allowed to live their lives as they please. As long as what others are doing in their personal life is not criminal or unsafe, I think they have the full right to do as they please and we, as citizens should not have that right taken away from us.

Etzioni makes apparent that the 4^th amendment is a right that we are given by our government. Going against this amendment for even the safety of our neighbors, is a violation to our rights. Even though I don’t think that sex offenders and child molesters should be given this right, I still believe that we should be given privacy until we do something illegal and unlawful.

My Home

Immokalee is a land where agriculture is and has always been extremely important. In Immokalee, the Seminole tribe is represented as one of the main communities. When the government decided to drain the everglades, this greatly affected the Seminoles by destroying their means of transportation. Immokalee had an abundance of farm work and most families that lived there had farms right outside their homes. People mostly ate what they farmed but did not shy away from exporting and importing. Immokalee is clearly a symbol of the “old” American Dream. This is mainly seen because they farmed within their own lands and viewed education not as highly as learning the ropes of the fields.

Fort Meade is my hometown and not many people know where Fort Meade is located on the map. I find Immokalee extremely similar to Fort Meade. In my hometown there are a lot of cattle ranches, orange groves, and farms; and we use these different sources to support our families and export to other towns. Fort Meade is very small and people go to my town to start off their new lives and begin a family. In ten years, I see Immokalee and Fort Meade both growing and becoming more populated and popular. I think they will both continue to prosper and flourish into bigger societies.