Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv...
by rconti on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:29PM
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It sounds like she DOES understand, you're just trying to convince her that privacy-fighters are right, which she may simply not agree with.
In other parts of society, there's a tradeoff behind what's good for society and what's good for individual freedoms.
Some people (say) don't want mandatory health insurance or helmet laws or whatever because they think freedom to choose is paramount. Others think it's insane that you'd EVER be opposed to something that might save even one life (what about the children??)
Sometimes these arguments are couched in terms of personal responsibility, the nanny state training us to rely on it and creating worse overall outcomes, etc etc.
In other parts of society, there's a tradeoff behind what's good for society and what's good for individual freedoms.
Some people (say) don't want mandatory health insurance or helmet laws or whatever because they think freedom to choose is paramount. Others think it's insane that you'd EVER be opposed to something that might save even one life (what about the children??)
Sometimes these arguments are couched in terms of personal responsibility, the nanny state training us to rely on it and creating worse overall outcomes, etc etc.