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Good luck flipping burgers.

More seriously, I"m tired of people thinking they have principles but have no idea what they are actually fighting over. Surveillance saves so many lives. At least explain what so bad about it.



I challenge you to rewrite this so that you're making a strong, optimistic argument for surveillance from your perspective, instead of shitting on a young person for trying to navigate a path through legitimately complex tradeoffs.

The onus is on you to make a thought-provoking case, not for them to convince you that their internal ethical alarm bells are reasonable.


As a wise man once said,

"drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,"


And you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them".

(highly relevant @dril quotes, for those out of the loop)


Isn't it self evident that this person has principles if they have left their job over it?

Does Visa Insights save lives?


How's your social credit score?




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