Cameras and Religion are enforcers of good and right behavior.
Which of these is the more effective enforcer of good and right
behavior?

      Question? Are Cameras or Religion more effective as an enforcer of good and right behavior?
       Today cameras recording the doings and misdoings of people are nearly everywhere. We are told that China leads the world in having cameras nearly everywhere there are people. But we do not have to go to China to experience the widespread use of cameras recording people and their actions. Visit Walmart and you will not only be able to purchase products  made in China but you may be videotaped recorded on cameras made in China. Of course, it is not just Walmart where cameras are recording the actions of people. This is happening in many kinds of businesses, including gas stations and mom and pop stores.
    Because cameras are present in many places it is difficult for people to deny their involvements, i.e., their behavior actions in specific situations that include the hour of their involvement. It was the videotape recording by George Holliday, a bystander, that showed the crime scene of Los Angeles policemen brutally beating Rodney King which revealed that the police had refused to tell the truth about the incident that after a long delay the police body camera recording was released to the public. (See  (Uriah J. Fields's eye-witness account of "The Rodney King Riot." Visit: www.uriahfields.com/gpage36.html). It was the videotape recording on camera by 17-year old Darnella Frazier of the May 25, 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis that showed a policeman with his knee on the neck of  Floyd for nearly nine minutes, causing his death. Without these camera recordings by standing by and police body cameras these and other police murders of black men, in particular, would never be revealed to the public.
      The question remains to be answered: Are cameras or religion more effective in enforcing  human behavior? It is no secret to most people, including devoted religious people, that many religious people put aside their religious principles and do what is expedient, not what is good or right. Sometimes they even deny that they are guilty of being involved when such is not the truth. But camera videotape recordings make this harder for them to be excused from the truth of their involvement.
     The camera will prevent a person from denying his/her presence and involvement in a situation specific. The presence of a camera may cause a person to not shoplift when otherwise he/she would steal. So, the camera may and often prevent a person from doing what religion will not prevent him/her from doing.
     I will not categorically answer the question asked at the beginning of this essay: "Are cameras or religion more effective as an enforcer of good and right behavior?" I will leave this to the reader to determine which is more effective, the camera or religion? 
     The reader may also want to answer whether he/she believes having widespread cameras are desirable or undesirable and how important is this regarding his/her privacy?.