In the Praise of Big Brother

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In society today there is more technology then one person could ever dream of. Everywhere you look and everything that you encounter. Every process and procedure is now all part of the evolving technology. As we grow as a culture and technology evolves we are going to cross moral and ethical dilemmas due to this expansion. In the article “In Praise of Big Brother: Why We Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love (Some) Government Surveillance” James Taylor argues that the State should place all of its citizens under constant surveillance. It goes further to elaborate that he is just not arguing for surveillance in public places, but at all times and in all places, including their offices, classrooms, shops, and even their bedrooms. The actual argument is that the state has a moral right for this surveillance. In the article Taylor refers to several scenarios that would prove his argument of constant surveillance being morally preferable over a situation with no surveillance. Most of his examples are about crimes that have been committed, and that the use of video would provide required facts about the incident. With this being said if a crime was committed then it would be morally permissible for the state to obtain information on what had happened. So the state should have the right to obtain the facts into what and how the crime was committed, which also means that it is moral for the state to have surveillance to obtain these facts. This however is not the part that is in question. The question is in what locations is surveillance ethical? Is it ethical to have surveillance in private places? According to the Patriot Act, which is a bill that was passed into legislation within 6 weeks of the attack that happened on September 11th, the government already has a legal right to monitor all communications in the US. This bill allows the FBI, with no probable cause, to
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