Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Location Tracking
I can understand vets using tracking devices for animals, but when it comes to using them for children now thats just absurd. You must be crazy to think it's even remotely ok to implant a tracking chip into a child. Children are not animals, they have the right to privacy even though they may not need it until they grow up a little bit and aren't dependent on the care of their parents, but still why would an infant be out of the sight of their guardian long enough to need to be tracked? If parents were good parents they would be intently watching their child and not let them leave their sight. As the child grows up it becomes an issue of not only privacy, but of trust. A parent should trust their kid (unless given a reason not to) that they can make their own choices and not be under constant surveillance 24/7 by the parents. It's also a learning experience to let the kid make their own mistakes and not have the parents be there and know where they are all the time. Let the kid grow up how they should and how they have been since the beginning of time, without tracking devices in them, especially now that cell phones can be tracked. Parents do not have a right to do this, even if they might think so. If there was a bill in Congress I would not support it. Yes, children do need lots of attention, but that comes with the job of parenting, why would a tracking chip be necessary if they were doing their job in the first place? I think it could cause parents to be lazier with their children and that would not be a positive at all. When talking about senior citizens who have Alzheimer's, I still think using location tracking is wrong, but it should be up to the individual and if they would like to have a device to track them. It may make them feel safer and more independent knowing someone is looking out for them and then by all means go for it.
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I agree that it would be wrong to treat children like animals and implant GPS tracking chips in them. Parents may want to be able to track children at all times but i also feel that just because they want to do this, it doesn't give them the right too. I hadn't thought about parents becoming lazier with chips like these but now that I think of it this could be like opening Pandora's box. Parents wouldn't need to communicate with children anymore to see where they are, what they are doing and who they are with. They would simply need to check where the GPS said they were. This leads to parents interacting less with their children which i feel robs them of the interaction all children should have.
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