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Abuse? Yes. potential abuse is not, however.
by diminoten 13y ago
Abuse? Yes. potential abuse is not, however.
- throwaway2048 13y agoso I don't imagine you would have any problem giving me a nuclear weapon. after all it's only a problem after I use it right?
- diminoten 13y agoYes, because recording license plates is even remotely comparable to a genocide machine.
- Houshalter 13y agoWhen talking about the subject of abuse of course it is. You yourself made an analogy to guns for crying out loud.
- diminoten 13y agoNo, it's not. A nuclear weapon is a special case. Guns are not, as it's already accepted that many people can own them despite their risk levels. "It could be abused" is not a valid reason not to do something, because everything is abused. It's human nature to abuse power. "The consequences of inevitable abuse are too severe to risk." is a better argument. What are the consequences of the abuse of this information? What, of these consequences, are possible only by the abuse of this information? What can go wrong when this system gets abused? Those are the relevant questions, and what we should be discussing, not quietly yelping, "my privacy" as we're each drug out of our beds into the night.
- Houshalter 13y agoSo are you arguing that this won't be abused? That seems extreme. There is a large probability that government databases will eventually be hacked, that the people using them will do a look-up for personal reasons, that police will use it excessively on some case, or use it to enforce bad laws, etc. You can say the benefit of it makes it worth it, but I don't see how you can believe these things won't happen at all.
- diminoten 13y agoI'm arguing that everything gets abused, and I'm not sure what is special about this that would make it additionally prone to abuse, more-so than any of the other tools the government has at its disposal.