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ENGL 101 – 0768
Dr. Vasileiou
Essay # 3
11/28/12
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unethical means and violation of privacy to ensure you’re safe?
In history safety has been one of the most important
subjects in order to protect and reduce any type of accident or criminal
threats. The world has made many changes
in terms of safety, but each change has reduce personal privacy and freedom, this
makes people uncomfortable because almost no one is willing to give their
rights for safety or change their life style to follow a new safety system. In this essay I
will write about how our society is using unethical means and violating privacy
to ensure safety and I will give my opinion of why should we do so regardless
of the ethical considerations of the means necessary. I will use the film of Free Will and Determination,
an article of Stop and Frisk and an article of Violence Prevention after
Columbine: a survey of high school mental health professionals, to support my
position and to prove my point of view.
Much high school
has the metal detectors and securities agents to help reduce any type of school
violation and to keep a safe environment for all students. This prevents students to injure any other
classmate or staff and it made student feel safe inside the school
grounds. In columbine high school
“between June 1994 and June 1999, 177 homicides of student between ages five
and 19 were committed at school. Eighty-four of these homicides involved
firearms” this demonstrated that without a safety system student could be able
to use any type of weapon and hurt or kill other student or staff, if this high
school had metal detectors or any other system to be able to reduce these
attacks from 1994 to 2000 things could be different and many student were alive
even if the rights were taken away, but look what happened because they did
have too much freedom. If a system during these homicides were made to help
prevent such action like in the movie Free Will and Determination a system
called pre-crime is used to prevent crimes of happening, is where the police
target the potential criminals before they commit the crime, this is a system
close to one we have in real life is called stop and frisk where basically you
will be stop if the officer see you as one potential criminal, this system is something that during 1994 to
2000 direct existed but now we do have it to prevent any other event like these
in the future .
The
new system of stop and frisk has not been approved by many people or for these
that are been targets of this new system. Many people do not see the safety
systems as save, but as other way of ethnic discrimination, of been a target at
the streets or many people thinks the government has something against them. Latinos in many stated are afraid of being on
the streets because just for their looks they may get stop and asked for their
documents or they are tired of being stop, I has being stop a couple of time from 2010 to 2012, it happened in from of my
house, getting out of my high school or
in the train station, but if this help keep the country save this is what
should be done for example this article says “ the city that never sleeps is
celebrating after 24 hours without a savage attack… residents of the
metropolis, with a population of more than eight million, experienced not a
single murder, shooting or stabbing… in 1990 new York saw 2,300 in just 12
months… there have been 366 killings so far this year, with compares with 472
at this time last year” this mean that even when Latinos or black males
criticize the stop and frisk system the number show that it is working that
many people are not dead today because of this unethical system, this is one o
the reason we should keep using the system regardless of the ethical
considerations of the means necessary to protect and created a better tomorrow.
Many
people are against of this unethical system. This country have many ethnic
groups that come from a history of slavery or a place where the government
control their lives complexly and for these reasons they made the decision of
immigrated or fight for their independence.
when these people see that their rights are been take away they refuse
and everything star to be black and white, they don’t see that they may be
getting save, or that these unethical move made by the government are for they
own benefit. For example in school with metal detectors the student needs to do
a line in order to pass by the machine, they need to take their belt off, their
jackets, back pack, hats and sometimes even the shoes, all of this take too
long and the student may get late to classes and this is irritating but all the
matters is that they are save does not matter how long it takes to get to class
but that each of the student will be able to be educated in a place where their
safety is more important.
In
conclusion safety is important regardless of the ethical considerations of the
means necessary to keep a good environment even when your rights are being
violated because you still alive and that’s what is important. To many people
has died because the place they where it was no safe enough, the only way of
safety we have deprive us of many human rights but that’s the only things
keeping us safe from any terrorist or any other type of attacks and into we
created a new system that protects us without taking our rights this is the
system we need to use.
Works Cited
Crepeau, M.Franci, MaryLynne Fillacio,
and Linda Gottfried. "Violence Prevention after Columbine: A Survey of
High School Mental Health Professionals." 25 Mar. 2005: 157-65. Laguardia.edu/libary.
Web. 1 Dec. 2012.
"Start Spreading
the News. New York Enjoys Its First Day Free of Violent Crime; NO MURDERS,
SHOOTINGS OR STABBINGS IN CITY." The
Mirror (London, England) [ireland]
30 Nov. 2012: 1. Print.
Minority report. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Perf.
Tom Cruise. Amblin, 2002. Film
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