2 ms·
> Government-sent postmen would be able to walk past every single door in the country every morning and [deliver mail]. Replace "deliver mail" with "look throu
by vntok 8y ago
> Government-sent postmen would be able to walk past every single door in the country every morning and [deliver mail].
Replace "deliver mail" with "look through the windows and write down what they see" and the statement suddenly becomes dastardly.
See what I did there? I took an random situation and made it instantly negative and big-brotherish just by invoking an imaginary narrative.
Conspiracy theories just don't help advancing arguments.
- jMyles 8y agoI think you're being unfair. You've conflating the much simpler task of changing the label with a much broader change (ie, throwing away the entire practice in favor of a completely different and more difficult one). Which do you honestly thing is more realistic and more consistent with what we know of the history of the state?