On: NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]

[Vi0]

Why would you need a government, even a democratic one, if you had no intention of restricting any individual's freedom?

[dsfyu404ed → Vi0]

Individuals are generally trustworthy. Groups generally act like sociopaths.

There's a difference between restricting the freedom of all individuals and restricting the freedom of some individuals.

Eventually you have to draw some lines (e.g. not letting people murder each other).

[Vi0 → dsfyu404ed]

But don't laws that apply to all individuals inevitably apply only to some subset? Most people have no desire to murder others and so are basically unaffected by a law forbidding it.