[elefanten]

Reductio ad absurdum. Why don't we say society itself is a miserable dehumanizing construct, the very first layer of expectation foisted upon our free natural selves? A country has borders... what are those but abstract prison walls?

If you are saying elementary schools are reasonably comparable to concentration camps, you have lost the thread of the conversation.

Hand-waving and semantic games don't change the original discussions: who would you rather hold power over you?

1. A democratic government that enshrines human and political rights

2. An authoritarian ethnonationalist oligarchy that enshrines the primacy of the Party

Whoever powers your chips will at least potentially have that power over you. We're in an era where we can decide, but anything can change. Our choices and the values we act on now will set the stage for what is available to us in the future.