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This, and I cannot agree enough. Generally speaking, governments don't always have your best interests in mind.

• sofixa 4y ago
  > Generally speaking, governments don't always have your best interests in mind Generally speaking, this a massive stretch for a democratic country such as Switzerland. What is the government there but a representation of it's citizens?
  • AdrianB1 4y ago
    > What is the government ... Extreme naivety or trolling?
  • iforgotpassword 4y ago
    A government's highest priority is keeping itself in power at all cost.
  • xienze 4y ago
    > What is the government there but a representation of it's citizens? Situations sometimes come up that the people don’t exactly get a chance to vote on. For instance, no one in the US in 2018 ran on a “if there’s a dangerous respiratory virus circulating in the future I vow to lock the country down to the best of my ability and mandate vaccines that have been fast-tracked” platform, and such a candidate likely wouldn’t win. But here we are.
    • sofixa 4y ago
      That's a rather poor example. Nobody campaigns on "If an earthquake/hurricane strikes, I vow to respect and implement the advice of the relevant agencies whose entire job is it to deal with this kind of stuff", because it's kind of a given.