1. Let's dig a bit deeper on this one. Does achieving a better life mean people who are free are more likely to get or make better technology? Is a free nation also an advancing nation? Is a concern for human dignity (see the Code of Ethics section in your textbook, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights) and individual rights a distraction from doing science and developing technologically? Are the goals of science and the goals of liberty the same? Should they be?
2. We have already dug into some very deep ideas on this one. Let's continue in this fashion.
In your opinion, can law enforcement and security agencies be trusted to use technology responsibly when it comes to protecting American civil liberties? And should national security be more important than an individual's liberty?