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>if I threaten someone or am called by my country to fight in a war, that right is trumped by something larger. So how do you feel about conscription? Would yo
by salawat 5y ago
>if I threaten someone or am called by my country to fight in a war, that right is trumped by something larger.
So how do you feel about conscription? Would you be alright if say, the government in question were capable of disabling your vehicle for draft dodging? How about protest attendance getting you on a no-drive list?
In the intelligence world, one does not assess an enemy based on their current motivations, but on their capabilities. No one can know another's true intent, but you can plan for what they'll do when they decide to throw principles to the wind and pull out all the stops.
A government should fear its people. Not the other way around.
- rich_sasha 5y agoI never said I don't want accountability, I totally do. I want courts to be in control of this, oversight, etc. But with those things in place, I do want this. Perhaps it's a cultural thing. I don't see the government as fundamentally against me. Yes, it has serious agency issues, and goes wrong from time to time, but essentially the government is "us", not "them". The opposing sentiment seems to be particularly popular in the US, perhaps that's part of the divide. I want the society, through appropriate representatives, to be in control of people abusing the roads, and I value that more than individual's illusory rights to road privacy (since if the government wants to track them, they'll do it anyway with barely more difficulty). This breaks down in oppressive states, but that's not what we're talking about here.