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> Still uninformed, but hopefully less tyrannical. I don't think this is a reasonable thing to just hope for. Historically, governments have always had tyranni
by cyphar 8y ago
> Still uninformed, but hopefully less tyrannical.
I don't think this is a reasonable thing to just hope for. Historically, governments have always had tyrannical streaks and I don't think it makes much sense to simply assert that "this time it'll be different". It probably won't.
- jstanley 8y agoI think policy just lags social acceptance. It never used to be legal to be homosexual, for example, then it became socially acceptable, and then a generation of politicians had to die off, and then it became legal.