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As a personal safe haven, the average American citizen desires the protection of their homes through the placement of security measures around their property. Some people place surveillance cameras and motion sensors around their houses and businesses to protect themselves from theft and unwelcome visitors. The surveillance cameras violate a citizen’s freedom of privacy for the safety of the citizen’s home because it watches the citizen without their permission. Similar to the telescreens in George Orwell’s 1984, the surveillance cameras monitor a person’s every move while in distance of the camera for the protection of the owner’s property or business. The telescreens’ use parallels to the use of the surveillance cameras because the Inner Party members use the telescreen to monitor the Outer Party members’ every move for thoughtcrime. For the protection of their client’s money, the owner of a bank requires their clients to provide personal information, such as the client’s social security number, for security purposes; however, the clients must give up their freedom to keep their information private because the bank requires them to give private, personal information and the clients must forfeit their rights to keep their personal information to themselves. Moreover, an average citizen wants to protect themselves from any possible
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There may be times when freedom comes before safety, such as for religious freedoms, civil rights, and freedom of speech. When it comes to religion, there are some liberties that religions should have that could overcome the safety of other citizens’ views because they should have the freedom to worship whoever they deem fit. On the other hand, in most situations, safety is regarded higher than freedom because a citizen will not think about freedom when they are surrounded by a dangerous environment. An average citizen must feel safe before they wish to achieve freedom because they would not want to be free without safety surrounding them because after they have achieved freedom they will still worry about their safety. However, H.L. Mencken provides the ideals toward safety for the average citizen and not the extraordinary citizens, who willing to risk their lives for the safety and freedom of their fellow
There may be times when freedom comes before safety, such as for religious freedoms, civil rights, and freedom of speech. When it comes to religion, there are some liberties that religions should have that could overcome the safety of other citizens’ views because they should have the freedom to worship whoever they deem fit. On the other hand, in most situations, safety is regarded higher than freedom because a citizen will not think about freedom when they are surrounded by a dangerous environment. An average citizen must feel safe before they wish to achieve freedom because they would not want to be free without safety surrounding them because after they have achieved freedom they will still worry about their safety. However, H.L. Mencken provides the ideals toward safety for the average citizen and not the extraordinary citizens, who willing to risk their lives for the safety and freedom of their fellow