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"I have kids to feed" was used to justify many atrocities throughout history.

I have both and will leave the UK once backdoored encryption comes into force.

I assume you live paycheck to paycheck on an income that's probably 2-3x the median income for your location?

You are responsible for protecting your family. That may mean you have to sell your home. Do you rather want to do that or sacrifice your families freedom?

The trouble is that damn near everyone will sacrifice your freedom for their family's comfort. People simply aren't noble as a whole.

Is that a fact? Or is it learned behavior? This sort of lazy, defeatist appeal to some rigid notion of human nature is a pernicious refrain in any discussion about real change.

The only thing you can say for sure about humans is that we possess a capacity for change and adaptation whose bounds have yet to be identified. But if you want to live in a box, then that's what you'll get.

If your home is under physical attack, you abandon your home as a refugee. Maybe some developers feel strongly enough to do the same when their livelihoods are under ideological attack.