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To: epicure who wrote (7247)	12/17/2005 5:52:39 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541346

an assumption you cannot even make for every "innocent" person. No, not for every innocent person. Every now and again there could be a screw up or a malicious attack that would affect an innocent person. I don't deny the possibility. But the likelihood is in lightning-strike territory so I am about as concerned about it as I am about a lightning strike. That seems reasonable to me. As for the people who aren't innocent, we should design a system to cater to them because...? If people change their behavior to become more innocent because they think someone is watching, that's a bad thing? And if they get caught doing something they shouldn't, that's a bad thing? Remember, we're talking about enemy combatants and traitors or potential traitors here, not ordinary criminals. Let's not lose sight of that. and some people will even use the fact that we have an illusion of freedom (as you have done) as an argument that the freedom from being spied upon doesn't really matter in the first place. I find that pretty ironic. I find that pretty circular.