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If you are arguing for more government eavesdropping, I would point out that terrorism is a failed political strategy on the decline even without help from gove
by woodchuck64 13y ago
If you are arguing for more government eavesdropping, I would point out that terrorism is a failed political strategy on the decline even without help from government programs.
If you are arguing for less government eavesdropping, I would need to see evidence, first, that there is some sort of real danger. I don't share the libertarian presumption that government is by definition malicious and incompetent.
- dasil003 13y agoThe point is not to argue either, it's the essential absurdity of your statement without concrete values.
- woodchuck64 13y agoConcrete numbers would be nice if we had them, but the values offered by true believers are not data driven. In the meantime, I will continue not worrying about getting hit by lightning and, simultaneously, not worry about being eaten by a shark even though one is probably riskier. That seems reasonable to me when there are higher risk things to worry about.