Question

Some people say that the only way to secure freedom is to curtail it during times of national crisis. can this be true? why?

introduction to criminology class

Answer 1

Yes, I think the statement is true.

I would like to cite an example to showcase my point. The first tensions over the scope of public health and the acceptability of its measures arose during the fight against infectious disease in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The often abysmal health situations in the rapidly growing cities of the Europe, USA and others required drastic measures, and public health officials were given the freedom to meet the problems with what, at times, were heavy-handed approaches.In turn, these provoked resistance to mandatory vaccination programmes, quarantines and surveillance. Efforts to control smallpox, which required compulsory vaccination, acted as a rallying point for groups and individuals who were motivated both by anti-government ideology and the fear of the physical harm that sometimes resulted due to the procedure. Anti-vaccine organizations throughout the USA were driven, among other things, by opponents of germ theory and groups generally opposed to government interference in their claims to privacy.