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A comment on NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf] by dsfyu404ed on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:55PM (#17230922)
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).

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Re:NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf] by Vi0 on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:27PM (#17232053)
But don't laws that apply to all individuals inevitably apply only to some subset? Most people have no desire to murder others and so are basically unaffected by a law forbidding it.
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