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So do completely "normal" people under 2 common circumstances. 1) People regularly break laws. This can be intentionally - j-walking, downloading copyrighted m
by somenameforme 2y ago
So do completely "normal" people under 2 common circumstances.
1) People regularly break laws. This can be intentionally - j-walking, downloading copyrighted material, drugs, and so on endlessly. It can also be unintentional - for instance many places have laws against using a phone while driving, which could include something as simple as answering it or looking at a notification. Then there are the zillion weird laws let alone unenforced laws which remain laws nonetheless. Give me all your information and I'll turn you into a criminal.
2) Normal today is enemy of the state tomorrow. One of the main ways the Nazi government targeted Jews was by using a public census conducted years earlier. Without that census (and novel hardware to scan it, developed by IBM) their efforts would have been far less effective. This is a really disconcerting one today as politics becomes far more divisive and radical on all sides, all paired alongside surveillance dragnets that'd make the Stasi blush.