Liberttarianism: The Unnecessary Collection Of Personal Information

Personal information is very important to many people. Many times in today's society, people's personal information is unnecessarily surrendered. There are many different ethical theories that support or oppose this unnecessary surrender of personal information. Some of those theories include utilitarianism, libertarianism, and deontology. An understanding of all of these ethical theories is very important when discussing the idea of the surrender of personal information. When discussing utilitarianism, it is important to first gain a complete understanding of the term. Utilitarianism is the ethical belief that one's actions should have the intention of promoting the largest amount of happiness for the largest number of people. In a sense, this means that the most …show more content…
When one believes in libertarianism, they feel citizens should face a minimal amount of intervention from political figures. In a sense, they feel society should be more laid-back than those who believe in utilitarianism. The belief that citizens should face less intervention is very applicable to the unnecessary collection of personal information. Those who follow the libertarian ethical theory would not support the collection of personal information. Because they prefer a society with minimal intervention from authority figures, they would disagree with those authority figures collecting their personal information. That is different from those who follow the utilitarian ethical theory. One who follows utilitarianism would not be opposed to the collection of personal information if it had the potential to benefit the majority of society, however; that is not the case for those who follow the libertarian ethical theory. Essentially, libertarianism and utilitarianism are opposite ethical beliefs, and have differing opinions on the unnecessary collection of big