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Debate Score:14
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Total Votes:15
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Should the Government place CCTV cameras everywhere?

I've always been against the idea of CCTV cameras watching us everywhere. But when thinking about it the other day the only reason i could come up with against it was the very feeble 'right to privacy' stuff.

Anyway, is the dislike of a 'Big Brother' government watching us all the time logical or a silly notion that should be cast aside?

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Side Score: 11
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This argument assumes everywhere does not include, personal property or the ability to look into personal property, but simply for pulic order. it also assumes local goverment service, eg coucil or police.

In the UK, goverment does not have access to public CCTV unless it falls in to the same category as those listed below for the individual.

Privacy only exists on personal property. Once you step onto Public property the Public deserve the right to know whats going on. In the same way an individual deserve to know what's going on, on their property.

How that information is used is up to debate, but if the law is to protect the public then they are entitled to monitor their property and inn the UK public cctvs are available to the public on request in the case of criminl or civil law.

So its not just Big Brother who is watching. It's the whole country!

I'm not sre how it works in the US or wheather the goverment has a much closer connnection with the law enforcement. But many times the goverment has been put in their place by the police here.

So basicly it should put cctv everywhere public but that doesn't give THEM untethered access, only public servants such as police and public order enforcers hace access.

Side: Yes
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On account of the advance of technology ,for the nonce , it is , inextricably , most of our privacy is being deprived of . Nonetheless , with some sacrifices made , we could bask in a multitude array of luxurious and unimaginable hightech gadgets .

Some may address that , it is unacceptable to let go our sacred region - privacy , trading for more soothing ambience . Since the birth of human race , knowledge is being accumulated from our ancestors toil . Despite of our reluctance , still , the path is being mimicked .

In a nutshell , should the spring of CCTV all around our neighbourhood can make some distinctive contribution to our safety and so forth devoid of our privacy intrusion , then , it is supportively for the Government to post CCTV .

Side: Yes
casper3912(1581) Disputed
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not safety, but retribution would be increased, granted the system isn't too flawed. it would only lower obvious intentional violence where escape from the retribution is required, but not stop school shootings, car crashes and poisoning so on.

Side: No

Big Brother is an absurdly unnecessary intrusion of government with private individuals.

Side: No
iamdavidh(4856) Clarified
1 point

Out of curiousity, if say your utopian idea of businesses owning everything were to come into reality and there was no government whatsoever, and say for some unfathomable reason these businesses decided to spend their money on say, streets and sidewalks,

would you then say it was an unnecessary intrusion of a business's right to their property for people (what power people had, which would be none but say they had some power) would it be stomping on these businesses' liberties if these people were to demand these businesses remove their CCTV cameras which they had placed on their streets and sidewalks?

Side: Yes
2 points

The biggest fallacy is the notion that people would have no power in a libertarian society, consumers have the ultimate power in a free market since there is no legal use of force. How will these businesses use force to gain power? I have already been over this with you. Business would be powerless in free markets.

As for the cameras, it is still about force, government forces the use of cameras regardless of public opinion whereas if cameras were in used in business setting, there is no force, and the market will seek alternatives.

Side: No
1 point

No, cameras is one of the ways for the government to enslave and control the mass of the people. Where is freedom, where are FREE USA?

Side: No
1 point

Everywhere would decrease the effectiveness I think.

I am not against them in limited use however, in places like playgrounds, parks, around schools, other public areas.

It may only slightly decrease the instances of initial crimes but could prevent a small number of them from happening I think. It could also give police a tool to prosecute and get known criminals off the street where they otherwise could walk, and help them track down muggers, children who have been kidnapped, things of that nature.

Side: No