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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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How far should a state have a right to monitor the actions of people within its borders?
The government may monitor the actions of people when the actions of people may bring harm to the society. For example, there are black markets around the world. Those black markets sell harmful goods such as cigarettes, drugs which are illegal in the society. When such demerit goods are bought from black market, people may suffer from addiction which influences their families and even the society. Thus, government may monitor the actions of those people are harmful to the society in order to protect the majority of the society. However, someone may argue people have their privacy even when they are doing harmful things. For example, people in Tibet should have their own rights to conserve Buddhism culture. The government should not monitor the action those Tibet people doing their Buddhism staff……
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  1. herawingMay 25, 2010 at 10:40 PM

    The elaboration and the link of the PEEL is missing.

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  2. Miss HayatiMay 29, 2010 at 8:29 AM

    However, someone may argue people have their privacy even when they are doing harmful things. For example, people in Tibet should have their own rights to conserve Buddhism culture. The government should not monitor the action those Tibet people doing their Buddhism staff……

    you need to rephrase what you mean by 'harmful things'? perhaps things that threaten the state need not necessarily mean things that physically harm the people? hence it cannot be justified to clamp down on certain cultures or religions?

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