Should the government start implanting newborns with a tracker?

I think putting trackers in newborns is just way too overboard lol.

 

This seems absurd to me.

Kind of over the top, I don't see a reason for it, we have many more major problems in this fucked up world.

 

If a criminal was serious enough about a serious crime and wanted to avoid being caught, they'd just cut the tracker out. Look how people burn off their own finger-prints to avoid being caught.

And others wouldn't care. 80% of school shooters take their own life in the school and I personally believe that's probably the plan from the start... Go in, kill everyone they want to kill, then take their own life. It's pretty rare someone shoots up a school with the plan being to escape.

This would help with children in a way. But it could mean it's more dangerous for them as well. Knowing for a fact the child had a tracker, the first move a kidnapper would make is to remove it hopefully before the authorities were contacted/found the location of the child... Possibly even in the back of a moving van speeding away from the mall where the child was abducted. And if it's in a place like the wrist, imagine how easy it would be for an armature to accidentally slice into an artery and kill the child.

Crime will not stop. Crime evolves with technology. Given enough time, if these chips were implanted in random places, it'd only be a few years before people would create an invention to locate the tracker. Or perhaps they'd find a way to distort the transmission and show that they are somewhere else, making crime even more hard to solve.... Look at how the justice system works now, imagine how it'd work with such technology.... "7 witnesses say they say tom leaving the bank with sacks full of money, but his tracker says he was at home, there is no damage to his body to make us believe he removed then replaced the chip.... The culprit must have been someone who looked similar"

And perhaps the first half of this post could be avoided if the chip was placed somewhere it'd be impossible to remove without killling the person - Then people would only find a way to distort the messages from the chip sooner.

so the "pros" of a tracking chip will only last so long... What, 5 years tops before people figure out a way around it? The cons will last forever. If I wanted anyone at all to know where I was and what I was doing 24/7, I'd actively use twitter.




And ontop of everything else - Imagine what the crooked governments of the world would ACTUALLY use these for.... I mean, they've admitted at this point they're doing more than just keeping an eye out for code words... The actual reasoning behind it would be something none of us could imagine... Possibly something that's already a conspiracy, possibly something too vile to have even been thought up by conspirators yet. All i know for sure is that I don't trust the government to do their jobs, I sure as hell won't trust them to put some kind of tech inside of my body to 'track' me like a wild animal.


End game, I believe this post beats my ENTIRE argument, I've seen it quoted but didn't read ALL of the previous posts, so I'm not for sure who posted it first... Seems like dunworry did, but I'll just throw it here as a new image because regardless if it helps against crime or even if the pros DID outweigh the cons, this is something that stands above it either way; however it is not a direct quote by Benjamin Franklin, it is derived from something he said.


"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
First written by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor on 11 Nov. 1755.

 

Thats bullshit tracking people mate , you want that goverment can see every step what you make ?

 

This pretty much.

The world is how it is, trying to force the "perfect" preference isn't the way to go forward.

If anything it'll just make people even more rebellious, and quite frankly it's dumb and will never happen so doesn't even need to be discussed.

 

Now imagine an scenario where the goverment puts an toxin or some kind of deadly substance into the tracker. It would be really handy to get rid of all the non working people like the elderley or the sick who need tax money care from the country. They could just eliminate all the people that don't make the money for the goverment, not talking about the people which they don't like, like some activists or politicians who wan't to stand up for the opposite opinion of the goverments's. Sorry for the bad grammar, english isn't my main language

 

I think that a book written nearly 2000 years ago (and only added to the Bible ~1600 years ago) has little to no relevance to this topic.

I agree with the spirit of your post, but repeating what an eccentric slave-owner from over 200 years ago said doesn't really reinforce your argument.

 

Thats a stupid Idea, like net neutrality getting rid of more and more of our freedom and freedom of speech. The US's crime rate is lower then most countries so putting trackers in people is just a form of controlling them.

 

I completely think it should never happen. I think a cool idea though, is once you turn 19 you have the option to be impanted with one and receive a monthly payment from the government as a reward basically, but I think any trackers would be a horrible idea anyways lol.

 

govt officials should only be able to track if necessary but yes

 

This is a dumb question posed by a bad person/slave

 

This is a crappy idea. Trackers wouldn't solve anything - just make it easier to frame people.

 

This would be a bad idea in my opinion.

If the parent decides yes, then I guess it would have to happen.

I would not like to have a tracker in me, the government is already controlling of enough things in our civilization today and I would
100% be against more means of tracking people.

 

This is a dumb idea as the real criminals are the politicians.

 

Exactly, what better way to manipulate people even more.

 

Wtf. No. Dumb idea.

 

Trackers would be weird as fuck, would be literally no privacy.

 

i put a tracker in my newborn

 

why did u do that???? Did u ask them?? they cannot consent to that!! !!! What will you tell them whence they are 18:?!!!!

 

Same for vaccinations. But we still do them because it helps the kid with diseases.

As for trackers, they are useful until the kid is 18. There are many kidnappings happening in the world and also baby swapping, where they swap the infants at birth in the hospital. So it is a way to stop those things. After 18, I think the kid-now-adult should have the opportunity to take the tracker out.