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Isn't this why judges look at search warrants? It seems like a judge concerned with privacy would look at the warrant to decide if it was reasonably minimal - to find the murderer without making too much collateral damage.

It's a case of balancing two rights - the right to privacy, and the right to life, to not be murdered. An absolutist stance on one would damage the other, and so we give judges the power to make decisions.

The whole point of having judges is to have upstanding and reasonable people we trust for this purpose, so we don't have to explicitly deliberate about every edge case before it happens.




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