If nothing changes, humanity, being human, is basically done for. To me being well fed by virtue of being harmless would be like throwing away the core of what makes my life meaningful, just to extend it a bit. I lived too long in an upright position to be remotely tempted by that. All of us will be dead for an eternity, the one real difference we can make for ourselves is what kind of person we were. Compared to that the difference between living 5 minutes and 500 years doesn't even register, at least not to me.

And hey, as faint as that hope may be: if things do change in a positive manner, people might scramble to fake proof they (or their parents) weren't just idle or even complicit. The same list of persecuted dissidents today might tomorrow serve as a whitelist for voting rights, among other things.

If they have data on you, then you are already on a list. Circular logic. It just so happens everybody is on the list. There's no special treatment.

Is the list the people who check up on the government? Could be a good thing.

I wondered about this, but I didn't know if it would really happen. Do we have any evidence for it?

or, exercise your rights or else you will have none?

> it can get you put on some kind of list.

Could you please elaborate?

It will definitely put you on more than one list.