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0 pointsvoltaireodactyl1y ago0 comments

The obvious response being that counting cars on the highway is a necessary first step on the road to identifying and then tracking their movements.

Similar to how insurance companies have offered voluntary, “anonymized” data dongles for discounts that are now being used (or at least revealed to be used) to collect data most often used to reject claims.

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Ferret74461y ago

Agriculture is a necessary first step toward a dystopian society, so clearly we should ban agriculture.

The logic does not follow. "A is required for B, B is bad, so A is bad" is not logically valid.

voltaireodactylOP1y ago

I absolutely agree — my statement was merely one of fact; to get to point B, one must first achieve point A.

Much like inventing the wheel (positive) is a necessary precursor to both ambulances/fire fighting (also positive), as well as DUIs (less positive).

The larger point being simply that I find it somewhat disingenuous for those of us who consider it our job to think through problems from many angles to pretend we’re somehow unable to imagine the potential unfortunate consequences arising from our work, given the existing Powers That Be (meaning both entities and trends).

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