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 4th 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.
I do believe its unbelievable how the government might be able to track the progress of everyone over time and im sure that kind of makes everyone feel a bit insure and watched. Its uncomfortable. We definitely need to live our lives with some sort of privacy but in a way some of these private issues need to become public for the benefit of the society. Etzioni makes a great example with testing babies for HIV in his writing.
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