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It's very tough, because it's easy to say after the fact if anyone has been harmed. There's also the concept of turning into a police state, which is bad, whil
by mathattack 13y ago
It's very tough, because it's easy to say after the fact if anyone has been harmed. There's also the concept of turning into a police state, which is bad, while you can argue away an individual wiretap.
My 2 cents... Beating suspects is 100% bad. So is blackmailing. They destroy trust in the system.
Wiretapping is touchier. If it reduces the amount of false convictions, is it worth giving up some aggregate civil liberty?
No black and white answer.
- lotsofmangos 13y agoWiretapping without adequate oversight eventually destroys civil governance as it is just as effective a tool for social manipulation as it is for criminal evidence gathering.
- mathattack 13y agoTrue. I guess it's a grey slippery slope, rather than immediate black and white of the others.