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The things worth hiding might not be the same things in 20 years. It's not illegal to be a Jew right now but look back a few years and see what could happen whe
by Moru 9y ago
The things worth hiding might not be the same things in 20 years. It's not illegal to be a Jew right now but look back a few years and see what could happen when there are registers of peoples beliefs.
- miguelrochefort 9y agoBut people only seek to hide what's worth hiding today, which defeats the purpose.
- otakucode 9y agoExcept for the people who talk about taking away the ability to spy completely - they're not just trying to hide what's worth hiding today. In the 1960s if you advocated for racial equality and interracial marriage, you were a social radical, a destabilizer, an insurgent in the popular culture. You were an offensive deviant, actively promoting the destruction of the race, opposed to the church, to the law, to the government, everything. Would social acceptance of racial equality even have been possible to develop without the government and status quo NOT being able to know their undoing was festering right under their noses? We should never be so sure we're right that we destroy the mere possibility of change.