On: Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism

[winter_blue]

It seems like the country is 50-50 divided on this. But more importantly, individual liberty is more important than majority rule. When the founding fathers created this country, they cared deeply about individual liberty, and worried about a tyranny of the majority. Even if a super-majority wants to deprive an individual or a minority group of its rights, they should not be allowed to.

A free country's first commitment is to personal liberty, and only secondly to democracy.

[dhimes → winter_blue]

"A free country's first commitment is to personal liberty"

Excellent.

[geggam → winter_blue]

by definition a democracy is a tyranny of majority.... i think you mean secondary to the republic

[themartorana → geggam]

No, it's to the Republic to make sure the ideals of true democracy take a secondary place to individual liberty for the very reason that true democracy can be tyrannical. That's why the Republic comes before the democracy.

[wiz21 → winter_blue]

"50/50 divided" means "nobody knows"

[EdHominem → wiz21]

That's the one-testicle, one-breast, average-person fallacy.

There's more than one issue concurrently, and many people are actually dumb and wrong.

[themartorana → winter_blue]

Wish I could upvote this twice.