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It's not knee-jerk when your nation's culture was formatively cemented by literally opposing everything about how Great Britain understood the relationship betw
by salawat 2y ago
It's not knee-jerk when your nation's culture was formatively cemented by literally opposing everything about how Great Britain understood the relationship between citizen and state.
If you cannot understand why those things are dismissed without question, you have zero business being anywhere around them. Some systems just should not exist. Their mere existence, plus the temptation to abuse them, is basically irresistable to exploit once they do exist. Both of the systems you mention fall into that category.
- knowaveragejoe 2y agoBe that as it may, the US seems to have worked around the need in a suboptimal way. I don't see how that can be improved without either 1) a national ID system seen in other countries or 2) beaming into average people's brains an understanding of unique cryptographic identities that they are in charge of maintaining and using.