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Could you elaborate?

• mpalmer 6y ago
  Social pressure to modify behavior happens organically and not for anyone's particular ends. But such pressure applied by a government system is automatically suspect and rightly so. Especially if the government is of the sort where nothing exists to serve as a check on the policymakers.
  • mcguire 6y ago
    Additionally, * People will not behave "acceptably" without constant social monitoring. This is similar to the Puritan belief that, if you didn't live in a town where your neighbors could watch you, you could be assumed to be worshiping Satan. * That the best modern form of that social monitoring is 24/7 surveillance with merits and demerits for trivial things.