More like, we can’t allow the safety of a few to override the rights of all.
You beat me to it. Although even that claim regarding "safety" is a stretch.
I think di Fi might have a point.
We should preemtively round up the ghetto blacks and put them in prison. We are violation only the rights of a few for the safety of all.
And actually, this was the point of the movie “Minority Report” where they preemtively arrested people based on the judgement of a group of “see-ers” who could predict the future. The dirty secret was that among that group was often “a minority report” that said a given suspect would not commit the crime, but the majority report was used for preemptive arrest and conviction.
"More like, we can’t allow the safety of a few to override the rights of all." Isn't that what civil rights, women's right, gay rights, etc did exactly?
It is a universal right not exercised by everyone.