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What's more important to YOU? Maintaining the right to privacy of a wacko nutjob or the safety of the society in which he lives? WHY?

Posted - February 20, 2018
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  • 32693
    Right to privacy. I agree with 
    Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
      February 20, 2018 1:13 PM MST
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  • 7280
    You do realize that you are taking it out of that context relative to that in which it was said.

    There is no evidence to support it's elevation to a general principle just because it was a series of words uttered (written) by Ben Franklin.

    Plus the alternates are essential liberty vs temporary safety, not liberty vs safety.

     "So far from being a pro-privacy quotation, if anything, it's a pro-taxation and pro-defense spending quotation."
           
            https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous-liberty-safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century
     
      February 20, 2018 2:22 PM MST
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  • 113301
    :):):) "Nuff said! :)
      February 21, 2018 4:54 AM MST
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