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Originally Posted by LessinSF
You are wordier than I, but of course it is a classic example of security v. liberty, with Adder being a totalitarian whom Pol Pot would have been glad to call friend. He is wrong; it is not decent.
LessinLeeds
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I think the rule that seeking comfort over liberty entitles one to neither without can be violated without being indecent. A person can fall into that sort of dangerous thinking for the best of reasons. Road to hell is often paved with good intentions.
"We must do something!" "We can control this!" Mania sets in, and then hubris, and all sanity goes out the window. We're idiots. Everything's a fucking pendulum. I guess it's a bug in our system. Politicians and policymakers get slammed more for not having done something than for having done too much.
