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Hypothetically, what would a charter look like that preserved citizen privacy and prevented schemes like this? If there were a there there, it might be worth do
by motohagiography 4y ago
Hypothetically, what would a charter look like that preserved citizen privacy and prevented schemes like this? If there were a there there, it might be worth doing something about it.
- JetAlone 4y agoIt would look to me like the founding articles of a new nation well-worth living in or dying for. The only thing that might discourage me from thinking so is that after all the struggle to live and take on the risks of dying, in a short few hundred years some mass of ungrateful descendants will be running around justifying some subset of the rights being violated, in some set of nearly ubiquitous contexts, for some disgustingly partisan vision of the "greater good". Hell, I think prohibitionism in the US counts as this well before our time.
- cowtools 4y agoProhibitionism didn't work because the USA was infected with a drinking culture since the beginning. It was about a thousand years too late.
- JetAlone 4y agoThat's one way of putting it. I think trying to destroy long pre-existing cultures in a society by overruling people's basic freedoms in certain cases is generally a bad idea.