• Thorny_Insight
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    8 months ago

    I guess the same argument could be used for privacy aswell. If you’re not going to do anything illegal then why not let the government read your messages and monitor your browser history? What’s the problem if you have nothing to hide?

    99.999% of gun owners are never going to shoot anyone. These kind of databases infringe on the privacy of perfectly innocent citizens only because of the extremely rare number of bad actors among them.

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      8 months ago

      I guess the same argument could be used for privacy aswell

      You could, if you wanted to comically misrepresent the point.

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        What is the comically large difference between the two that I’m not seeing then?