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0 pointsibeckermayer7y ago0 comments

This is not an empirical issue. Without knowing any of the outcomes, we can already say that a government clocking your every move and giving you a rating based on how favorable the government finds your behavior, all without your consent, is an utterly obscene moral evil.

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erikpukinskis7y ago

Generally when people have to use the word “obscene” it’s because they can’t make an argument in moral grounds. See: obscenity laws.

But I’d like to here your argument on why this is immoral.

Gambit897y ago

Maybe it is a question of needing to experience what happens though.

Most people are of the "wait and see" and "you gotta do what you gotta do to survive" mentality. So they "wait" and let events unfold, and survivors in those cascade of events are idealized as morally good.

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