My point, and I don't think I'm alone in this, is that powerful tools/weapons will always be used for "evil" as well as good. It is naive to say "well, let's b

My point, and I don't think I'm alone in this, is that powerful tools/weapons will always be used for "evil" as well as good. It is naive to say "well, let's build the perfect surveillance tool and then trust that some government will never abuse it (against its own citizens, political opponents, other countries, or whoever)." Such a pure government has never existed, and will never exist, not while humans are running the show. More succinctly: "absolute power corrupts absolutely."