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i feel like we do this every other year? yet somehow surveillance/privacy laws don't have to be renewed for years on end?

• gumby 10y ago
  > yet somehow surveillance/privacy laws don't have to be renewed for years on end? Actually they typically do (e.g. USA Patriot act). Sadly it's usually a rubber stamp with a bit of ritualistic, minor opposition attached.
• savanaly 10y ago
  Think of it rather like this: if a goal is hard to achieve then there won't exist a surefire solution (otherwise how is it hard to achieve?). Instead, you must work your way towards it consistently and diligently, in order to improve the odds of accomplishing it. Depending on the goal there are probably a lot of factors outside of our control, in this case high level political maneuvering and the fortune that is the unpredictable swings in uninformed public opinion. That doesn't make the effort that could possibly tip the scales wasted though. Whether all the effort is worth it depends on how you rate your odds and how effective you think your efforts are at increasing those odds. If you want to argue the particulars then that's legitimate, but simply pointing out that attempting something every year in the past didn't yield results doesn't prove it is irrational to continue doing it.