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In the former, a small closed source centralized authority has all the information and power. In the latter, everyone has the information, so the balance of po
by alanwatts 10y ago
In the former, a small closed source centralized authority has all the information and power.
In the latter, everyone has the information, so the balance of power is evened.
- wallace_f 10y agoI agree. It might be impossible to effectively govern ourselves when adhering to strict idealogical principles. In other words, individual right to privacy may be generally a good principle that we may agree to, but society is too complicated to not resort to pragmatism and there will always be exceptions. Is it not the same with every other idealogical principle by which we govern ourselves?