"Big Brother: Afghanistan"

[saberon]

The question is: How much liberty are you willing to sacrifice to gain safety?

Considering it is in another country... you would be sacrificing no liberty to gain a large amount of safety. Seems like a good deal to me.

[Deleted]

Do I understand you correctly if I say that you are willing to give up privacy to gain safety then?

Privacy is a part of liberty, but I realize there's more to liberty than that. Right now I'm thinking that maybe I should of rephrased my question

I'd prefer not to give up my own. I think you didn't understand how loaded my answer was. I would have preferred not to give a blunt answer.
I am willing to give up the other guy's privacy for their safety and mine, in this situation. I hope it is not a permanent affair and don't think it will be. But, that's how I feel about it right now.

[habitsbreaker]

I'd prefer not to give up my own. I think you didn't understand how loaded my answer was. I would have preferred not to give a blunt answer.
I am willing to give up the other guy's privacy for their safety and mine, in this situation. I hope it is not a permanent affair and don't think it will be. But, that's how I feel about it right now.

what if that kind of behaviour make the other guys angry and he decide to payback by tacking you safty

[Deleted]

what if that kind of behaviour make the other guys angry and he decide to payback by tacking you safty

If you are referring to the Taliban/al-Qaeda, they will hate 'us' no matter what our governments and militaries do, so I don't care about how they feel about the surveillance equipment. Let them be angry. It'll just get them beaten down again and again.

If you are referring to average, rational citizens, I would hope, that even though the measures are stern, they would understand why they might be used, and still appreciate the efforts made by Coalition and Afghan governmental/police forces to oust the Taliban from holding power in their country. There has obviously been a lot of tension recently with abhorrent, freak events like the massacre of civilians by Sgt. Bales, but people like that do not represent the majority of armed forces personnel by a long shot.

Getting annoyed by surveillance cameras is no excuse for murdering people, and I resent the insinuation.

[Stanton Biston]

Do I understand you correctly if I say that you are willing to give up privacy to gain safety then?

Privacy is a part of liberty, but I realize there's more to liberty than that. Right now I'm thinking that maybe I should of rephrased my question

If they did this in the US, there is nothing in our laws against it. It gets sketchier if they're using advanced camera equipment to look inside someone's house with a greater degree of view than what would be possible from the street or whatever, but they can (and do) still do it.

I mean, the US Constitution doesn't even have a clause defining privacy as a right. Obviously the founding fathers understood that security was important.

[Deleted]

whats the problem, its a camera, the local people are probably happy that instead of being shot at with guns they are being shot by the camera

[Deleted]

Afghanistan's been torn by war for decades, and an insurgency remains there now. This strikes me as far less sinister then things like the online snooping bill being introduced in the UK, where the police have the power to monitor all e-mails and online communications.

[Sunseeker]

Well, considering the shit that still happens there on a regular basis, I'm not surprised. For you folks who say "well what if they did this at home!" They already do, just not with retarded blimps. You have ZERO expectation of privacy while out in public, it is perfectly legal for the police to monitor your actions when out and about, and they do. Stop-light cameras, among others, do this already. If it helps lower crime or catch criminals easier, that's a good thing. Private businesses have security cameras for a reason.

Yes, having a camera pointed in my bedroom window or installed in my ceiling would be pushing it. But if there is a crime or violence problem in an area, I wouldn't be opposed to heavier public monitoring.

[Powerogue]

stay in your homes, you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide. Big Dirigible loves you. Obey Big Dirigible.