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At some point you need to trust the government to make the right decisions. Or to at least not lie about these things. If Facebook was hacked and lost data, wou

At some point you need to trust the government to make the right decisions. Or to at least not lie about these things. If Facebook was hacked and lost data, would we expect Facebook to release a detailed report showing the evidence of hacking? I understand the desire to see evidence, but we have to trust our elected officials to make the right decisions and our intelligence agencies be honest about what they've discovered. If we demand consensus by the American anytime an issue like this comes up, nothing will ever happen.

Gargoyle 10y ago
Why do I "need" to trust the government to make the right decisions? What I "need" to do is keep a very close eye on government and demand that they be able to justify their decisions.
- matt4077 10y ago
  And yet what you're "doing" is letting your anti-establishment tendencies do Putin's work for him. This is starting to look a lot like some relationship drama, where the mother-in-law constantly sabotages the marriage with tiny annoyances and seeding doubt. "Did you leave the milk carton outside the fridge?". "No, but didn't your husband have coffee earlier?".
  - Gargoyle 10y ago
    >...do Putin's work for him. I am unmoved by attempts to cast acting in my own interests as feeding into the plans of the boogieman of the month.
- ENOTTY 10y ago
  > Why do I "need" to trust the government to make the right decisions? This might be the fundamental question. What form of voluntary governance (i.e., not authoritarianism) does not require trust by the governed in the government?