1. Individuals vs States
- Snowden single-handedly confronts a country that has turned into a mob that invades its people.
- The state is a collection of limited rights at the beginning of its existence, and its limited rights are given to the state by the citizens of the state and used for public education, social security, and national security. When the state, a collection of limited rights, infringes other due rights of citizens in an improper form for the purpose of realization. Such conduct seriously undermines the rights, dignity and freedom of citizens.
- First, the purpose of state action is to achieve American hegemony.
- The United States has expanded its purpose from defending national security to maintaining the interests of the United States in negotiations, maintaining the United States' threatening power to other countries and important relevant figures, and ultimately maintaining its hegemony in the world when implementing the Prism plan and other surveillance programs. status.
- Second. There is no consensus between the state and citizens on this act.
- As the representative of the consciousness of all citizens, the behavior of the state essentially represents the choice of citizens. The most basic principle is to decide one's own behavior based on a democratic way, that is, to act based on democratic consensus. Yet the nation's rulers of the United States made two arrogances here. One is violating the basic powers entrusted to the state by the Constitution, bypassing the Constitution to expand the scope of its own power, and the other is directly infringing upon the rights of citizens without their knowledge. It has to be said that it is like a monster that hurts wantonly in the name of protection. Such a country is not what we need.
- Finally, we demand fundamental rights to privacy, dignity and freedom.
- As an independent individual, everyone enjoys natural human rights, including the right to life, liberty, private property, the pursuit of happiness, and the derived right to privacy. And these rights are morally inviolable. If every citizen becomes the object of state surveillance, can it be understood that the state violates the human rights of individuals? And these are the most important things for human beings, and they are also things we pursue. In order to protect these, we support the actions of the state, but the state harms us. This does not mean that it is time for civil rights to awaken, and it is time for state rights to control.
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2. Hero vs Traitor
- Is Snowden a hero or a traitor
- I have always believed that waking a sleeping person is a great thing. When we are in a transparent world, it seems that we have long forgotten what personal privacy is, and anyone in the company or country exposes themselves to the Internet world, giving people an opportunity to take advantage of it. Before Snowden, we actually didn't have the so-called privacy, but Snowden told us the truth, and awakened everyone's long-sleep individual consciousness, realized their rights, realized that they were still a person, and enjoyed basic freedoms , dignity and privacy. Leaking state secrets is a traitor's act, but through this incident, things like this are like destructive innovation, and the short-term destruction is to awaken a profound awakening of human nature. Even traitors are heroes!
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