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Originally Posted by _Q_
What's that saying? If you're willing to give up your rights during an emergency, then the government will always create an emergency to take away your rights.
While I think, unfortunately, some level of government control is inevitable during an emergency, I think we need to, as a society, more clearly define an emergency and the emergency needs to be short lived. With covid, for example, there are no metrics on when all this will end and it feels as though the goalposts keep shifting. I think it's highly problematic and sets a dangerous precident.
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This is more of a communication issue than a dangerous slippery slope. Most governments do not want to impose these restrictions and wouldn't if they didn't feel they had to. Locking down people for no reason isn't exactly the path to political success.