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A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" [0] I believe that it is dangerous to conflate job

• roenxi 7y ago
  On the one hand, I agree with you that it isn't helpful. But on the other hand, there is a plausible parallel. The reason for strong controls on privacy is because every couple of generations governments tend to do a lot of damage to their own citizens. If I thought the worst that was going to happen was the risk of being wrongly accused, public shaming or something, then privacy isn't really worth it. I trust law enforcement to be generally correct in assessing the situation, and if you are doing something shameful you may as well be shamed. Privacy is important because it is one layer of protection against institutions participating in the murder of citizens, seen in Germany, China, Russia in the last generation and China + others this generation. Who knows for next generation? Change is very quick - there is no law of nature that says it won't be an Anglophone country. We can get thingy about whether a conscientious objector has to be the last person pulling the trigger or not, but in practice that distinction is not an important one.