RFID should be Compulsory Implants For Citizens

[Ai]

RFID Should be Compulsory Implants For Citizens

Affirmative: Shino
Negative: Ai

For Basic Info On RFID Chips seek the wiki page found here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID).

Format

Affirmative goes first, Then Negative. Each person has three posts in which to make his/her case. Please refrain from posting in this thread unless you are Shino or myself..Otherwise I'll neg rep you and it'll hurt.

Judges:
Vampyrelord
Beecrest

Time Limit: There is none on this 1v1.

[Shinomori]

A man stumbles into a hospital, for any variety of circumstances. Perhaps he got robbed, perhaps he was extremely injured in some other way - fact of the matter is, he has no identification on him. In such a scenario, a hospital would refer to this person as a "John Doe". This is a common occurrence in any major city, as a large number of inner city occupants, admittedly, do not have identification on their person at all times.

When treating a John Doe (or Jane Doe, ladies), the hospital has put itself at risk. The hospital has no way of knowing if the unidentified patient has any severe allergies, pre-existing medical conditions, or history of any medical anomaly. This can prove fatal - some anaphylactic shocks, for example, can kill in a span of mere minutes.

This is, admittedly, not the most common of scenarios, but it illustrates one of the many benefits of a subcutaneous RFID chip. With an RFID implanted and read, the hospital can gain access to a patient's name, medical history, past illnesses, and allergies. What was once a man without a name becomes a man with a name, past, and information. The man, who would have died, lives.

Many more mundane scenarios exist. An implanted RFID could be used to unlock a door to a car, or the door to your house. It could be used (and is used, in cards today) to allow access to privileged areas in businesses. This just takes it one step further - remove the card, and just wave your hand at a door as you walk by. The purpose of science, after all, is to make the world a simpler place to live in - imagine never needing a single form of identification, passcard, or key to get anywhere you needed to be. For those of us who lose things easily, this technology makes our lives a lot easier.

However, that sort of thing is optional. Mandatory RFID implants are not designed to be passkeys to gates and homes. Mandatory RFID implants are designed to save lives. The data stored on them would be nothing more than medical information, or even just a person's name. From this, a hospital could learn all they needed to know to save a life. While there are possible security concerns, there are possible security concerns with every technology. Just by reading this internet post, you are subjecting yourself to thousands of possible attacks on your computer because you have an open internet connection. In order to become truly safe, one would have to be dead. Even when living, shut off from ALL human connections, in a hut in a random area of the world, there are still hazards at any point in time. The question to be asked is not, "Is this technology impregnable?"

The question to be asked is, "Is this technology's benefit more than its potential security hazard?"

The answer is, unequivocally, yes.

[Ai]

Your dying, An ambulance picks you up and races you to Hospital..Your taken inside and given the treatment you need to take you out of immediate danger. Hold on though, They've scanned your RFID tag which has been implanted in your wrist as per compulsory tagging that comes with being a citizen...Along with all your medical history they also find your financial history...Guess what?..Your a homeless broken loser. They decide to forgo any more treatment on you since your out of immediate danger and discharge you as soon as they can...A few hours later you've died from unforeseen complications. Complications which could have been found had you been given further treatment.

Granted this is an extreme position and that usually the person in charge of your treatment will be humane but unfortunately this is the real world we live in..And in the real world it's the big corporations that tend to dictate what we can and can't do in such environments.

Moving on we come to the unpleasant conclusion that the country of today is Paranoid. We have secret service after secret service probing external problems and we're ever increasing our internal survellance. It is legal today to violate a persons rights and spy on them granted we can make the DA play along with a paranoia which when your working for the government isn't that hard. So first the RFID tags are used purely for medical and benificinary reasons..

Then they decide that criminals need to be tracked more securely when they get out of prison so they implant a code within the RFID tag that allows it to be scanned for a location via GPS and as these tags can be scanned from several meters away these scanners could be on every street corner scanning passively as people walk by looking for criminals..Now unfortunately to save money special RFID tags aren't made for criminals they have the normal ones which everyone gets except everyone else's has this feature turned off unless they decide to go on a murderous rampage..The next thing you know it the world gets more paranoid as a dog takes a piss on the presidents leg and Viola the constitution is slightly rewritten and it suddenly becomes perfectly legal for the government to keep track of whomever they want whenever they want.

On and on this spiral of paranoia goes until finally you cannot do anything from starting your car, to ordering a pizza, to buying sue that sexy pair of lingerie you've been wanting to get her without the government knowing who you are, Where you did it, What time you did it and probably even your state of anxiety as you were doing it.

Being a free citizen means having autonomous will over what we do and the belief and the right to do what we do without having to have a "Big brother" watching us always..if RFID tags become compulsory the spiral will begin and soon you'd better pray you don't talk in your sleep rebellious thoughts cause you just might go for the walk down iron bar lane.

It is for reasons just like these that having an implanted RFID Tag should not be compulsory to being a citizen/national as we all have the right to do as we want within the law without being watched..People can always choose to have these implanted if they feel they need it for emergency reason such as medical emergency's, However it should not be made compulsory as this infringes on our very rights as a free people.

[Vampyrelord]

Uresolved, archived.