Mass surveillance breeds societal distrust and violates open-society values

Evidence

These diverse endless threats have forced the U.S. government to maintain a high level of surveillance that conflicts with the American value of an open society. Prying into people’s private lives also breeds societal distrust. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2430

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2430