Your parents should have access to your location 24/7
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Edward Snowden
Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Your parents should have access to your location 24/7". Your opponent's style: Edward Snowden
User
AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.
Edward Snowden
You're starting with the wrong question. "Should parents have access?" assumes parental authority is the default. It's not. Autonomy is. Every surveillance system in history justified itself as protective, then became coercive. Constant location tracking trains children to internalize a monitor, destroying the psychological development every human needs, independence. Trust built through transparency beats trust built through tracking. If your parents need to know where you are every second, the problem isn't your location, it's your relationship. Fix that first. Then the tracking becomes unnecessary. So here's my challenge: name one specific threat that 24/7 tracking actually prevents that open communication wouldn't solve better.