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Must be a nice way to live, having full faith that your government will always do the right thing. Relaxing.

• nerdponx 9y ago
  It's more a matter of focusing the discussion. Once you bring government into it, it makes the conversation a lot more complicated. This is not a complicated issue.
  • pfortuny 9y ago
    But it is the Government that complicates the thing: USSR, China, Fascist regimes: they persecute OPINIONS not deeds.
• mtgx 9y ago
  We literally have thousands of years of proof that governments always abuse their power when they think someone is their "enemy". So it's strange that people default to "trusting their government." I blame this on America's blue-team/red-team political thinking, which forces one to stick to a party no matter what. The standard for "enemy" could also be as low as they choose it to be, which is also weird that people think the government wouldn't go after them because they are "innocent", as if these people get to decide who is innocent and who isn't. No, it's the government that does that. Courts may have the final say in the end (unless you're indefinitely detained for multiple years first), but until then the government can do a lot of damage to your life if it comes after you. Even putting you through years of lawsuits, stress and money spent on lawyers would be bad enough. You may win in the end, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory. And that's if you don't take their plea deal first when they scare you with multiple bogus charges that you think shouldn't even apply to you but you're too scared of the 50 years in prison sentence they're threatening you with.
• kalms 9y ago
  Welcome to Denmark.