Blog #9 Essay 3 Draft

VeeshokaMudwari

ENG 101-

Dr. Vasileou

Essay 3 Draft

Date- 12/03/12

Sacrificing Personal Rights for Safety

Safety is needed no matter how difficult it is for people to go through it. If an unethical approach can reduce crime, then certainly, it is not wrong to violate ethics. As the people in movie Minority Report do not really emphasize on violation of human rights for their want of safety, today’s society also should disregard few unethical conduct in order for them to stay in a safe environment because it minimizes (if not eliminate) crimes to an extent and it also keeps in track laws and orders of the country to follow.

The movie, “Minority Report” shows that the society is free from any kind of “murder”.  The advertisement of precrime projects its popularity among people. There is an incident in the movie which presents the people who were supposedly murdered came on the advertisement of precrime and explained how they survived the crime with the help of precrime. However, the people had to give up some of their rights to the precrime officers. The scanning of eye, can serve as an example for this. The people, in any circumstances let the spider-like machines scan their eyes and then continued their work. Nevertheless, the people in the society felt safe and protected due to the existence of precrime, which was the major reason  why precrime became a success in the society of minority report.  These incidences also can be related to our own society.

In the article,“Second Suspect in Fed Plot”, Tamer El-Ghobashy And Devlin Barette explained the recent incident about an immigrant from Bangladesh was taken into custody for suspicion of planning a bomb blast in Ferderal Reserve Bank in NewYork. He started affiliating himself with people against American officials from facebook  and got involved into severe planning of a bomb blast, making President Obama as the target. However, he had no idea that whoever he was connected to for the criminal act were actually FBI agents conducting sting operations by tracking people who “aspire to terrorism”.  This sting operation made the society eliminate one of those ill intentioned people who can be regarded as a threat to the society. However, on doing so, the public certainly realized that their personal right on using social networking sites is been constantly observed and questioned. Nevertheless, these types of affiliations of the undercover agents can help prevent numerous crimes in the way it prevented the attack in the Federal Reserve. The violation of rights of people in this incident can not in any circumstance be regarded as unethical or unfair. The aim of the approach is to eliminate crime, and for that if the people have to give up a few of their rights, it should not be questions.

The individualistic people, however, might disagree to the point that even if it is risking numerous lives, one’s personal right ought to be followed. However, this questions a concept of eliminating law and order from the society on the name of personal or private right. Difficulties that one might face, in an airport just because one looks Muslim, or troubles one might go through in a street for vandalism for the mere reason of being Hispanic or black, might bother a human right protagonist. However, is it ethical to actually risk the life and safety of thousands just to protect the right of an individual? Similarly, is it fair to question the government or safety department which has been working all day and night for our own safety for suspecting us? They follow the patterns because they take the past references to actually determine the future incidences. If every individual tries to get their right in correct place and escape the suspicion of the government, the actual culprit will also be missed and thus the probability of crime taking place would increase.

Thus, in order to make the people feel protected and safe, and in order to minimize the occurance of crime by taking affective action for not letting the culprit escape, it is important for the people in the society to give some of their personal rights.