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Even if you live in a western country you do all of that anyway. Self-censor at work and online so I don’t get fired or banned from w/e.

Accept elected officials whose policies don’t match up with popular opinion and accept standard employment hierarchy.

That's very different than worrying about going to jail for life or getting disappeared.

So what? Lose your job, lose your housing.

Prison is at least 3 hots and a cot.

Some people value freedom more than comfort.

What freedom?

Anything that can’t be done while in prison, for starters.

so naïve

> Prison is at least 3 hots and a cot.

Decent prison conditions tend to overlap with countries with decent human rights.

IN authoritarian countries you might very well be starved or tortured in prison.

You might also just disappear and your body may or may not be found in an identifiable state.