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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Your value of human rights is concerningly low, and your fear of terrorism gullibly high.
That's a terrible combination, as seen by your willingness to part for one to possibly protect you from the other.
If I'm trading rights to stop something, let it have a higher than "near zero" chance of impacting my life.
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The ability to spread religious extremism that advocates killing people is pretty low on my list of things worth preserving... even for "near zero" impact.
We're not talking about trading healthcare, education, gender equality, or critical discourse here. In fact, we might even get to enhance them.
Also, the assumption whatever the UK comes up with would have to be a major civil liberties infringement and your assumptions with regards to where I feel the balance needs to lie simply for pointing out that there is a balance to be had suggests that you are the one who is arguing from a position of fear.