Less Privacy is Good for Us (and You): Question 1

Etzioni believes that violating privacy for the common good of public health and safety is a "justifiable diminution of privacy". He uses the HIV testing of infants and people hired to work in child care centers or schools as examples for this common good he refers to. I agree that both of these situations can be justified to violate privacy. If mothers are tested for HIV in the delivery room the rate of HIV in infants would drop. "Two-thirds of infected mothers are unaware" so if they're tested, they can become aware and save their babies. When told of their situation, as long as mothers do not breastfeed and give their babies AZT, the probability of the infant getting HIV is lowered immediately. Right now, people hired to work in schools or day cares cannot be properly background checked to keep out child abusers and sex offenders because criminals use false identification and aliases. Using something called biometrics, a method for recognizing humans based on fingerprints, facial scans, eye-scanning, etc, people can have their background checks connected to their physical characteristics that cannot be changed, therefore they wont be able to cheat the system. Our children will be safer and parents will be at ease knowing that the people they are leaving their kids with are safe and will not harm them.

Untold Stories

In the videos they talk about how Immokalee used to be the land of the Seminoles. But after the government ordered for the water to be drained the land became hard and the lack of water killed off a lot of the animals they hunted. The new dry land brought about railroads and better farming, which in itself brought about new jobs and industrialization. As more jobs came about, more people from other countries came in and took the farming jobs, and the Seminoles slowly adapted or left. To this day Immokalee is still strongly based on farming
I grew up in a town called Brandon, a little south of Tampa. Where I live is very rural and very different than Immokalee. Although it is very different, I can relate to it because near Brandon is a place called Plant City. It is also highly reliant on farming and most of the people that live there are Hispanic. Plant City mostly farms strawberries and every year we have the Strawberry Festival. I go to Plant City a lot because my mom works out there sometimes and when we drive out there I stare in amazement at all of the strawberry crops and orange groves; there are just so many! I can't imagine going out there everyday to pick fruit off of a tree or bush. I don't think I would ever so it, but I'm thankful for the people that do. I can only imagine how hard the work is.