Is the giving of more power to the government, for immediate societal relief, fair to our future citizens?

Question

Where will it end? How much oversight does the government need in our personal lives? Sure, it might help with immediate problems, but does it not set a precedence for the expansion of government?

Answer 1

Definitely not!

In the UK, parliament has just voted to take away the rights of a suspect to a swift trial.  It has started out being just terrorist suspects but I can see them extending this to murder suspects, then to rape suspects, then to robbery suspects then to....    You get the idea.

Soon the government will give the power to hold me without charge for a month for taking my library book back a day late.  Habius Corpus was brought into law for a VERY good reason.

Answer 2

The government is not the solution, individual citizens are. Democrats and Liberals are more than willing to give the government more power without any thought of negative consequences.

Answer 3

Nobody is  directly giving the government more power, they are more or less just taking it, because we are not being proactive. The constitution puts limits on government, and especially on the judiciary branch. But the supreme court has slowly been chipping away at the foundation of the constitution. Every time another liberal can't get something done they go to the courts to try to circumvent congressional rulings. And government oversight will not help with our immediate problems, it has caused these problems.

Answer 4

"absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Answer 5

no, and it doesn't seem to end, the government will take as much oversight in personal lives as they can get away with, such actions lay precidents to allow future actions to be more common and widely acceptable