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Unless you're talking only about yourself, I can assure you, making "You go to jail for this" part of the equation definitely shapes aggregate societal behavior

• zlg_codes 3y ago
  And if push comes to shove, the American administration is less than 20,000 people. There are 300 million people in thin country and less than 20 million service members. The people can take this country if they want it. It would be ugly but it's entirely possible.
  • shadowgovt 3y ago
    Oof. Your estimates of the power of 300 million people to overcome a military 20 million strong do not match mine. If we're assuming complete consolidation of groups (i.e. those 20 million wholly aligned against the 300 million)... Modern warfare is entirely asymmetric. It depends on how willing that military would be to deploy air power, bombs, and smart weapons. To say nothing of how much organization of such a resistance could be stymied by the simple expedient of shutting off the grid (electrical and communications) that could occur in an open civil war. ... in the abstract. I hardly imagine it'd come to a shooting war over something like the perpetual push-pull of figuring out what "privacy" is. That's a conversation that's been going on for hundreds of years.
• JohnFen 3y ago
  I wasn't talking about whether or not it shapes behavior. Of course it does. What I meant was that it doesn't change the point I was making, or the ethics of the situation.