“Concrete threat”

by daneuscedu

‎”Supreme Court’s GPS case asks: How much privacy do we expect?”
By Jonathan Turley, Washington Post, Nov. 11

Note the sentence: “The problem is that privacy remains an abstraction, while crime, or terrorism, is a concrete threat.” It’s such thinking that almost guarantees the end of privacy. “Crime” and “terrorism” are NOT concrete: they are abstract categories, no more abstract than “privacy.” In addition, the notion of a “concrete threat” is senseless. Turley is also not some right-wing legal flunky, but arguing here against the assumptions that seem built in to phrases like this.