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To: Question_Assumptions
So you are prepared to go for a total surveillance state with laws against encryption (oh wait, that's already in Patriot II) just to enable protectionist legislation to try to save IT jobs?

Kewl. Freedom is pretty cheap these days.
54 posted on 09/23/2003 8:31:08 AM PDT by eno_ (Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
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To: eno_
So you are prepared to go for a total surveillance state with laws against encryption (oh wait, that's already in Patriot II) just to enable protectionist legislation to try to save IT jobs? Kewl. Freedom is pretty cheap these days.

That's what I love about debate on the Internet. Every issue is reduced to two options -- all or nothing. No need to bother with the complexities of finding a functional middle ground.

Why is it that with laws against theft, rape, and murder, we accept less than 100% perfect enforcment? Why is it that we don't have a "total surveillance state" to stop theft, rape, and murder to bring enforcement up to 100%? And why is it that few call for an end to laws against theft, rape, and murder on the grounds that those laws are not 100% effective or that better enforcement of these laws may lead to a "total surveillance state"? Could it be that the real world is more complex than simplistic excluded middle arguments allow for?

55 posted on 09/23/2003 8:49:38 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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