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The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our ability to spy on other countries and foreign citizens? i have my opinion about that, but we all collectively have to come to our opinion about it.

-Edward Snowden

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The Question That We, As A Society,

Edward Snowden

The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our ability to spy on other countries and foreign citizens? i have my opinion about that, but we all collectively have to come to our opinion about it.

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Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. a group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. in a free society, the "rights" of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... a group, as such, has no rights.

Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the collective nor for the collective, but against the collective - as a barrier which the collective cannot cross... these rights are man's protection against all other men.

We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. rights are grand things, divine things in this world of god's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. i can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.

According to the washington post, the nsa has been monitoring phone calls and emails of people in mexico. so apparently it's not enough to spy on american citizens, they feel they have to spy on future american citizens as well.

The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. in the light of its philosophy the individual is born into a collective and it is "natural" and proper for him to behave as members of this collective are expected to behave. expected by whom? of course, by those individuals to whom, by the mysterious decrees of some mysterious agency, the task of determining the collective will and directing the actions of the collective has been entrusted.

Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. the two are intimately linked. and history is our collective memory. if our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.

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