Those institutions that are supposed to protect us are systematically stealing from us without due process via civil forfeiture, and they're doing it on a scale that outweighs all burglaries nationwide.
You shouldn't be surprised when Americans value privacy over institutions. Our institutions are more criminal than our criminals.
>While there are some merits, this type of value exchange is a dangerous vehicle for facilitating human exploitation. We need to start talking about that fact more, instead of the fever dreams that those of us in the free world somehow live in some faux-totalitarian state, simply because you can't legally purchase MDMA or cocaine.
>stealing from us without due process via civil forfeiture
Yea, this is exactly the type of faux-totalitarian nonsense i was talking about in the other thread. If we live in a free society, we can change the types of laws we don't like, and in the case of civil forfeiture, we should, and are, but pretending like one bad law justifies something with these consequences is ridiculous.
Well that's the problem. We don't live in a free society. And there is virtually nothing we can do to change the laws, as the status quo invariably benefits the people in power.
So I'll tell you what. You can work on fixing those institutions if you want. I'll take the privacy while we wait.
You shouldn't be surprised when Americans value privacy over institutions. Our institutions are more criminal than our criminals.