[BobbyJo]

It's a non-static, non-homogenous, equilibrium. It changes with technology, environment, and culture.

As surveillance gets easier, we need to choose having crime for the sake of privacy. As the manufacture of dangerous materials and weapons gets easier, we need to choose between living in a more dangerous world, or slowing human progress.

Not every culture has the same risk tolerance. Not every time period has the same risks.

[Ialdaboth]

You can have both surveillance and crime, they are not mutually exclusive.

[BobbyJo]

That would be one of the equilibriums I'm attempting to reference.