What if everyone in the world, right now, could produce supersmallpox or craft a nuke (or, given sufficiently-advanced technology, do something else for which the same technology offers a poor defense compared to the offense)?

Wouldn't the only chance for survival entail a daily, warranted scan by the thought reader of everyone to ensure nobody was tempted to do it? (Or, better, omniscient surveillance.)

The point here being that the "1984" route is a valid (if not ultimately preferable) choice in this philosophical fork in the road.

(Also, rest unassured, I hate having this opinion.)