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Began a lengthy response, but: what's the point? Here, instead, is my close...
Putting things on a scale (safety at one end, freedom at the other), most folks look for a sweet spot between the two.
It's a mistake of course cuz the sweet spot gets shifted slowly and surely over to 'safety' by those who look to profit (in one way or another).
These profiteers don't have to work very hard cuz most folks, it seems, are easily hoodwinked into trading off autonomy in an effort to preserve autonomy.
Me: I skew heavily toward 'freedom'.
Hyper-aware of even the smallest encroachment, folks like me rage and stew.
We see the bars of the cage and hate them and we hate 'you' cuz you defend the cage.
I believe that cage ultimately will open to the chute leading to the abattoir.
I believe 'you' will walk calmly, mebbe even happily, to the killing floor cuz you simply don't know any better.
As you like.
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