Americans treasure their freedom. We all enjoy our personal, social and political freedom to a degree. So it is ironic and even tragic that we are willing, able to give up our freedom in pursuit of the value security. More often than we like to think we needlessly sacrifice freedom for security. “If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it”(Singer 1972, 300-304). It requires a sacrifice of one to have the other. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, tons of people supported the United States government in applying the Patriot Act. This act alone decreased the civil rights of Americans suspected of terrorism. So to sacrifice the
