Negative Space: civil rights
- Always Trust a Criminal
- Franklin said that those who give up freedom for a bit of temporary safety will lose both. But we now know that restoring freedom can give us true safety.
- Fahrenheit 451
- A very good adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novel of the same name. “Firemen” have evolved from people who put out fires to people who create them—in order to burn books. Fireman Montag begins to question this existence after a run-in with a young girl on a train.
- The presumption of innocence and prisoners of war
- Fairness means raising the standards of others, not lowering our own.
- Shopping around for lesser civil rights
- The two reasons for “rendition” are that we don’t have evidence against a suspect, or that we want to keep it secret. When are those reasons valid?
