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<blockquote data-quote="Sanford" data-source="post: 2175173" data-attributes="member: 27733"><p>Well ... as with most things it depends on perspective and the particular case under discussion. We've come so far down the road of political correctness that we don't dare do anything that might possibly be interpreted as infringing on the rights of any minority group, be it based on religious preference (or lack thereof), race, sexual orientation, heritage, etc. In this context it's that "profiling" thing - watching a person or persons more closely because of one or another of those various traits - that we've been told is so awful. But is the watching itself an infringement of their rights? Well, that depends on how much you believe a person has a right to privacy.</p><p></p><p>We (most of us anyway) don't want our names on some central registry as gun owners not only because of 2A, but also because of what we see as our own right to privacy. Do we want to withhold that same right for others? Where to draw the line and under what circumstances is the difficult question. Of course, in both instances the bottom line may well be less about the privacy of the information itself than it is about its potential disclosure and use to cause us harm.</p><p></p><p>So ... yeah, I have to defend the muslim students' right to privacy as much as I expect my own right to privacy to be respected.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sanford, post: 2175173, member: 27733"] Well ... as with most things it depends on perspective and the particular case under discussion. We've come so far down the road of political correctness that we don't dare do anything that might possibly be interpreted as infringing on the rights of any minority group, be it based on religious preference (or lack thereof), race, sexual orientation, heritage, etc. In this context it's that "profiling" thing - watching a person or persons more closely because of one or another of those various traits - that we've been told is so awful. But is the watching itself an infringement of their rights? Well, that depends on how much you believe a person has a right to privacy. We (most of us anyway) don't want our names on some central registry as gun owners not only because of 2A, but also because of what we see as our own right to privacy. Do we want to withhold that same right for others? Where to draw the line and under what circumstances is the difficult question. Of course, in both instances the bottom line may well be less about the privacy of the information itself than it is about its potential disclosure and use to cause us harm. So ... yeah, I have to defend the muslim students' right to privacy as much as I expect my own right to privacy to be respected. [/QUOTE]
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