Why would you need a government, even a democratic one, if you had no intention of restricting any individual's freedom?
Re:NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
by dsfyu404ed on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:55PM
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Individuals are generally trustworthy. Groups generally act like sociopaths.
There's a difference between restricting the freedom of all individuals and restricting the freedom of some individuals.
Eventually you have to draw some lines (e.g. not letting people murder each other).
>I hope academics consider this before getting into bed with them. They don't just have a subersive mission,they're making decisions out of fear.
sed 's/ US intelligence community/Commies/g'
sed 's/ US intelligence community/Hippies/g'
sed 's/ US intelligence community/Liberals/g'
sed 's/ US intelligence community/Mormons/g'
sed 's/ US intelligence community/4chan/g'
sed 's/ US intelligence community/OP/g'
sed 's/ US intelligence community/The alt right/g'
sed 's/ US intelligence community/BLM/g'
sed 's/ US intelligence community/white supremacists/g'
sed 's/ US intelligence community/academia/g'
sed 's/ US intelligence community/the tech industry/g'
sed 's/ US intelligence community/whatever group I happen to disagree with today/g'
See the point? You could have said that about any group you didn't like.
In my opinion any individual or group seeking to restrict the freedoms of the individual is inherently subversive to democracy.
edit: And I'm wrong because why?