Societies have gradually grown more unfair as the political system has strained under their growing complexity. According to political scientists, the average voter has an extremely limited understanding of what their government is doing. The typical person's understanding of economics is similarly extremely limited.
This opens the door to manipulation by demagogues and special interests. The growing control that government exerts over society, seen in everything from the emergence of a mass-surveillance system of unprecedented scope, to the number of regulations on the books, to the percentage of GDP made up of government spending, is not healthy, and needs a counter balance in privacy technology that empowers the individual and limits the Kafkaesque tendencies of collective society.
>And you're advocating for not holding up your end of the bargain, and removing one big part of the punishment for not holding it up.
This is not a bargain one voluntary agrees to. It's not a contract. It's an imposition. It's, ostensibly, majority rule, and nothing more.
>To people advocating that, then I can only hope that since your money cannot be taken away, then more of your freedom will. For the good of all of us.
Your comment genuinely horrifies me. I presume you're saying you want people who don't comply to be put behind bars, for extended lengths of time. And their crime, that you insist is harming the rest us, is to not comply with a plan that the majority imposed on them.
You've justified it in your mind by arguing that these people accepted a bargain, and are now not holding up their end of it.
When seemingly intelligent and articulate people so easily rationalize imprisoning their fellow man and woman, it's horrifying to witness.