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by oarsinsync 2027 days ago
The position was “don’t break laws that provide my right to privacy”

The response is “what about all these laws you break yourself?”

I don’t think that’s particularly valuable.

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I think it is helpful to point out that some laws are poorly written, are pointless, too aggressive, or impossible to comply with properly. When someone realizes that there are laws they themselves break, hopefully they tone down their conviction that they're law abiding and others are not. This then helps to process the actual problems with individual laws.