Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary

Re:Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary by dm319 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:40AM (#14901084)

I find this comment particularly interesting. I have a suspicion that believing in good and bad people is a product of fairytales and religion. I've never quite understood why authoritarianism, religion and the right seem to go together, maybe this is part of puzzle.

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Re:Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary by fredley on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:08AM (#14901429)

I don't think religion etc. is to blame personally, it's a simple extension of believing that I am good, and I am like her, and she is good, and we are not like them. We never see ourselves as the people who could tip over the edge.

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Re:Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary by waqf on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:15AM (#14901530)

Fairytales and religion wouldn't be so popular if people didn't already have an innate desire to believe in good and bad people.

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Re:Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary by ebcode on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:44PM (#14903961)

Then again, people wouldn't have an innate desire to believe in good and bad people if fairytales and religion weren't already so popular.

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