Reply #23: Your disdain for civil liberties, if not endearing, is not surprising.

[Raskolnik]

You're an authoritarian, through and through.

Yes, civil liberties *are* dangerous. Allowing people the freedom to speak, to move freely, to congregate, and share unpopular ideas does have a cost in decreased public safety. Placing restrictions on law enforcement and insisting on due process can have a cost in decreased public safety. Most reasonable people understand that civil liberties can, and do, come with a cost, and understand that the cost is worth paying in the long run.

There is a balance to be struck, that much is certain, but you certainly do have a consistent and persistent contempt for anything that protects, rather than erodes, people's civil liberties. Why is that?


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