would you be willing to live with fewer freedoms if it meant better security?

Question

Would you be willing to live with fewer personal freedoms if it meant better security? For example, would you accept rules that would allow governments to monitor your communications and your computer activity?

Answer 1

I lived in Africa during a civil war. Our telephone calls were monitored (I knew some guys at the PTT who monitored them). ID was required at all times (they issued national ID cards of embossed aluminum like dogtags). Cops on the corners carried submachine guns. There was a curfew on travel outside the cities (roadblocks with armored cars). You would travel in convoys. They would cordon off streets randomly and ask for ID and search everyone for weapons. I carried a small handgun (registered) at all times and searched under my car for bombs before I started it. You get used to it.



But that is where there is a real civil war, when dozens or hundreds of people are dying every day. Here, I strongly resent having to present ID to enter a government building or taking my shoes off at an airport. The government has no cause to monitor my calls or internet (though I don't mind the NSA as much as Google doing it). We don't need so much security, since any threat is very slight.

Answer 2

I already do.



When I was young there were many freedoms we do not have in present day America. I support some of the changes, but disagree with others.



There are also some additional freedoms. Some apply to all citizens, others only to those who suffered deliberate discrimination.



Change is inevitable. As individuals we can band together to have an impact on some issues we believe are worth the sacrifice required. The ball is in our court.

Answer 3

No I would not be be willing to live with fewer freedoms if it meant better security. Live free or die.

Answer 4

Security without freedom is worthless. So my answer is no. We have lost and given up much

over the past 20 or so years. I am not willing to give up anymore.

Answer 5

If the Government wants to listen into and read texts about washing powder and everyday life then they might learn a thing of two. No doubt talking about washing powder and weather would be thought of as a conspiracy. I think they are wasting $/£billions on what is classed as security when it is pure noseyness. They seem to imagine knowing everyones business in everyday life gives them the edge and so control of the masses. What codswallop.

America has a gun culture and people kill every minute of the day, yet America talks about ISIS. Its enough to make my thoughts spin. After writing this no doubt men in black wearing jack boots will stomp to Britain, to my door and whisk me off to one of their interragation sites, such as area 51, never to be seen again.

Answer 6

The masses are given this technology as LUXURY, and commodities, not necessities. They should be willing to sacrifice a mere commodity for their own security, not refuse to let the government interfere with their precious internet and then throw a hissy fit when terrorist organizations collapse America's cyber network. As technology advances with the world becoming more dependent on digitization, the cyber realm is becoming a viable way to attack the US and its infrastructure; in order to keep up with such advancements, more online surveillance is only necessary to preventing such a devastating exploitation.

Answer 7

Freedom IS security. That's the whole point. This is like saying, "would you be willing to live in prison if it meant better freedom?"

Answer 8

NO! NO! NO! Get a kjversion Bible and believe. You will lose both if you play that game of trading supposed security for liberty. You won't be safe or free. It's a trick.

Answer 9

NO. The ONLY way we can be truly safe is if we are truly free.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ”Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.”

-Benjamin Franklin-

Answer 10

No, I would not. Ben Franklin had a great thing to say about this subject:



“Those who give up liberty for security deserve neither.”

Answer 11

Women's security is Women's freedom-

It has a basis in entiements, services, infrastructure-

safe public transit, reliable community based education & housing---

Women's security is ndever enhanced by wars or prisons.

Answer 12

I would be fine with it. As we've seen in the past few days, ISIS members are in America. They communicate largely through the use of social media, and our government should do everything they can do to find and stop them. The government doesn't monitor every single citizen in the United States.

Answer 13

You don't have that choice. Homeland security makes that choice for you.

Answer 14

This old Texan will take care of his own business and I expect those fools to do the same.

Answer 15

Would you ride your mom as a wagon if she sprouted wheels?

What? That question is every bit as sensible as the one YOU asked.

Answer 16

"those who would surrender essential liberties for security deserve neither freedom NOR security"!

Answer 17

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Answer 18

I should be able to carry a gun on airplanes! It's my second amendment right! Guns don't hijack airplanes, people do!

Answer 19

Never

Answer 20

No. I wouldn't.

Answer 21

No, the government is evil and lost the trust of the people, since we all know they lie

Answer 22

No. **** Jeb Bush.

Answer 23

No one is invading us. And all this fear mongering is rotten and out of place. Its political and people should see it for what it is. Obama has kept America safe. We cant say that for Republicans. They got us into this mess and mad Obama is cleaning it up. Clinton Please!!! 2016.

Answer 24

depends on the specifics

Answer 25

No.