Hypothetical: Would you rather have AT+T wiretap w/NSA or a domestic terror attack every seven years that killed 50 people?
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He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security. - Benjamin Franklin
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We are all going to die. I will take my chances with the domestic attack. It makes life worth living.
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Our phones have been wiretapped since the 1960s.
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M$let's take the US annual Homicide rate:
Assualt, Homicide: 18,361
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
the lowest cited leading annual cause of death is Septicemia: 34,828...
(follow the cited doc for the big list)
SO give me liberty or give me death!
(18,361 / 50 = 367.22 times over annually!)
seriously, I know we have to do a certain amount, but have to question how much this really amounts to when you stop one incident, versus the cost of civil liberties... what is the realistic cost?
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M$The answer is: Ask a different question.
There are thought experiments and logic puzzles that while thinking about them we actually gain some perspective or some idea we hadn't thought of before.
This question is not one of them, the asker commits a fallacy, what makes it worse is that he knows he's doing so. Spreading these kind of false dilemmas around only serves to muddy the waters of what should be thoughtful discourse about an important topic.
I only made an account to ask you to please think before you contribute thoughts that are an impediment to reasonable discussion.
Think of the average voter, not as a group, think of the voter perfectly in the middle of the intelligence spectrum. Now realize that half of all voters are less intelligent than even that middle of the road idiot. These kinds of fallacies will only confuse that lot and you'll wind up with worse legislation than you can imagine.
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