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hermannj314

I wrote a letter to my congressperson (US based) when this topic come up a few months ago.

His reply was, basically, there are exactly two distinct groups of people:

1. People that think their government should be able to read what they do online.

2. Child molesters.

I don't have a lot of faith in the system anymore.

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There are definitely two groups of people:

1. people who trust that the government both has their best interest at heart and also makes very few mistakes

2. people who realize that governments have a long legacy of committing both intentional and unintentional atrocities on the people of the world

Unfortunately, very few of the latter end up working for the government

and even if we have government 1 now, we could always have government 2 after the next election

I'm thankful our constitution here in the U.S. seems to have been written entirely by people firmly in group 2. Sadly, it feels like those principles have been slowly eroding ever since...

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