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To: Dayuhan who wrote (84965)11/8/2004 10:38:41 PM
From: Keith Feral  Read Replies (1) of 793779
 
<We can have a free country or a moral country, but never both. If people have the freedom to choose, some will make choices we don't like. That's life. The cost of taking away freedom is greater than the cost of the decisions some will make.>

Herein lies the fine line between equality and freedom. Carranza was doing an amazing job with the discussion on privacy and how it is not a value protected by the Constitution per se. I think that privacy is the hidden link between Western democracy that promotes freedom and equality. Our respect (not to be confused with Constitutional right) for privacy gives people the right to entertain freedom & equality. The minute that someone like the DC sniper walks all over the freedom of other people within society, that person loses all rights of privacy. They are exposed to the highest levels of surveillance that eliminates all sense of freedom. Ultimately, this process can remove all their rights of equality of citizenship if they are proven guilty and executed.

I wonder if one could assign a single value to each branch of government whose job it is to protect or expose. Legislative -freedom, executive - privacy, judicial - equality. I think it makes some line of reasoning that the lawmakers legislate the rules that make us free, the law enforcement part of the executive branch determines the extent to which the private actions of a person or persons violates the rules of freedom, and the judicial branch decides if the injustice proven or not by the executive branch has violated the freedom that should be equally enjoyed by the injured parties.
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