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Current events such as the US-China trade war, rising inequality between the haves and have-nots, the upcoming financial crisis, the increasing military strength of China (with "military-civil fusion") and its emergence as a superpower, decreasing respect for the rule of law from politicians, and the polarisation between the left and nationalist right parties strongly parallel the buildup in the 1930s preceding World War II.

You say it would be corrosive to your soul to optimise death of currently living human beings. However, if those humans were trying to wipe out your mother, father, friends, loved ones, children and perhaps the rest of the world, by optimising their death you would be optimising the chance of the human race to survive. From that perspective, you would not delight in killing, but delight in preserving the peace and quiet which could only be achieved by cutting out the cancerous tumor which threatens the whole body of humanity.

Then again, who's the cancerous tumor here - the West or the East?

Sure, that's why the choice of VPN provider is important. You need to choose a provider which doesn't keep logs, and has the character to shut down their business before being legally compelled to reveal users, like lavabit did. You can read this thread for an example: https://airvpn.org/topic/15396-does-airvpn-log-its-users-ip-...

For additional protection, you can also run Tor over VPN.

Purism has a laptop with 2 physical switches, and it runs linux too.

https://puri.sm/librem-13

Here's a linux-running laptop that has 2 hardware switches:

https://puri.sm/librem-13

If you are hacked, the camera light won't tell you. The camera light also won't protect your microphone or your personal data.