Less Privacy Is Good for Us (and You)

In Less Privacy Is Good for Us (and You), Amitai Etzioni, agrees that every person needs some sort of privacy in there lives. Privacy is an issue that many people have differences of opinions about. Etzioni believes that the doors to some private issues should be opened publicly. He thinks in the long run it will make our society better and stronger. Issues like public health and safety entail some rather justifiable dimunition of privacy. His example of HIV testing of infants is a great example of this. Many mothers are unaware they have the deadly HIV virus and since they are unaware, it is ultimately transferred and shared with the newborn baby. This is where the issue of privacy comes into play. Some women want to keep issues like this to themselves and in no way want to be told they have HIV. They can prevent there babies from keeping the HIV virus under two circumstances. The disease can be shaken from the baby if the mothers do not breast feed and are given AZT immediately. The most important factor to this is the agreement by women to be tested first.
Etzioni believes privacy should rely squarely on the Fourth Amendment. I don't necessary believe that he thinks privacy comes second. I believe he thinks that there are some issues that should remain private but there are also some issues that are private that should go public therefore benefiting not just ourselves but others as well. I agree with his statements more than i disagree.