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user-inactivated  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Eternal Value of Privacy

You are joking, right? I can't tell anymore with this issue.





user-inactivated  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm exaggerating a little. I do think that civil liberties need to be absolute, because we have no other practical means to restrain law enforcement, and the law is cruel.

user-inactivated  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, okay. I look at it from the opposite point of view: law needs to be absolute, because we have no other practical means to restrain human nature, and humanity is cruel.

user-inactivated  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Humans make the laws, and enforce them.

user-inactivated  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be sure. But the democratic majority does to some extent normalize the human nature.

It's an impossible argument, I think. Shades of grey with no factual evidence on either side.