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Re:China’s experiment in ranking and monitoring citizens has... by ibeckermayer on Saturday April 07, 2018 @12:15PM (#16781352)
This is not an empirical issue. Without knowing any of the outcomes, we can already say that a government clocking your every move and giving you a rating based on how favorable the government finds your behavior, all without your consent, is an utterly obscene moral evil.
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Re:China’s experiment in ranking and monitoring citizens has... by erikpukinskis on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:15PM (#16781631)
Generally when people have to use the word “obscene” it’s because they can’t make an argument in moral grounds. See: obscenity laws.

But I’d like to here your argument on why this is immoral.

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Re:China’s experiment in ranking and monitoring citizens has... by Gambit89 on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:09PM (#16782997)
Maybe it is a question of needing to experience what happens though.

Most people are of the "wait and see" and "you gotta do what you gotta do to survive" mentality. So they "wait" and let events unfold, and survivors in those cascade of events are idealized as morally good.

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