Philosophers and Fingerprints
Gandhi and Fingerprinting
Today's environment has a lot more security measures that seem to border the notion of a police state. With the threat of terrorism constantly looming over the American public, there have been a lot more allowances in security measures. This, however, would be seen as a violation of rights and privacy by many philosophers, including Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi was a powerful force in the fight against oppression and public injustice during the English occupation of India. His philosophies captured the attention of the world and helped show that you don't always have to fight violence with violence to win. Gandhi preached the importance of self-discipline as a way to ensure good citizenship and behavior without coming into breaches with the law. According to his principles, "Brahamchraya means control of all the organs of sense. He who attempts to control only one organ, and allows all the others free play is bound to find his effort futile" (Manu Bhavan Ganndhi Sangrahalaya, 2014). When one lives a self-disciplined life, one becomes a better human being and thus a responsible member of a functioning society. Those who possess this quality should then be trusted, and not explicitly told they are not trusted through actions like requiring the fingerprinting documentation of all individuals under a nation or organization. For responsible men, there is no need for such heightened security measures, and instilling them in an organization such as an academic institution is only a flagrant insult to those who work within it. Gandhi would have seen such procedures as insulting and a breach of justice within the organization.
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