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Today, we are discussing all those cameras being placed all over our cities.  Officials tell us it's for our protection.  Citizens are worried. Movements are afoot to reduce this camera presence.  Is it justified?  Remember, its not just the picture, it what comes with it.
Pictures plus a thousand words?  Artificial Intelligence (AI) can put together your picture with all your personal data. Subversives should be nervous.  So should we all. Dossiers for all.
In the West we need to trust our government to restrain its natural instincts to use any information they have to stay in power.  The comes to ethics, and ethics is rapidly becoming a theoretical subject, a historical artifact, a quaint quality. Deprecated at last review.   
I don’t care what your politics.  Can you say with certainty your party would not use this information to track political opponents in looking for damaging information?  Like the old song, “Simply Irresistible.”
Want more?  Enter the hacker.  Government data systems are notoriously vulnerable.  This implies third parties can track anyone they want with full dossier.  Bottom line?  Except for the canonical nobody, there is somebody who wants to know what you’re doing – and now can.
Want still more?  China has this entire package in place.  Citizens get an annual score – with dire consequences for a low score. Even the bigshots get scanned, and do they know who’s looking in?  Big country, many eyes.
Cameras are good: terrorist deterent.  Cameras are bad: government surveillance. Can it be both?  Can both be good?

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The greatest learning engine is problem solving.  Give a lecture and only a fraction learn. Ask for a group discussion and more learn.  Ask them to solve a problem, and they all learn.

Why is a diamond ring like ethics?  If you’re speeding along on a highway in your car and you toss out a diamond ring, you will probably never find it again.  It’s the same with ethics.  Throw them out while speeding through life, and they’re likely never to be found again. 

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