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Originally Posted by Coign
And if you laugh off the slippery slope argument, you are deluding yourself. Laws are being passed and we are losing freedoms. Right to privacy, right to not self-incriminate, right to travel freely, right to be free of suspicion.
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I made those same points 25 years ago. The libertarian crisis was at hand then, too. About 12 years into it I realized, with some amount of shame, that the slope wasn't actually sloping.
And now, with even more time and understanding, I am still surprised to find that things were actually getting better all that time, not worse. I just couldn't see it, because I was stuck seeing only those things I was looking at.