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I was referring to things that are illegal (murder, kidnapping, assault, theft etc.),because they severely harm the life, limb, or property of others. I was pointing out that just because our laws against these crimes do not stop every instance, there is no reason to abolish the law itself. You're talking about things which have a wide variety of perfectly legitimate uses which we (quite properly) allow in spite of t…
You were being juvenile by grouping murder with meta data. How does meta data "severely harm the life, limb, or property of others"? It's an appeal to emotion on your part, and judging by how you're now lashing out like a child, you still have quite a ways to go before you mature in this conversation.
Re: Can We Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia?
#81Note the direct parent. It referred to industrial espionage, not metadata.