I don't know. I dislike censorship and genuinely believe people would be better served by living in a world that had no concept of lying. But that's the idealist me.
The realist know that, like with Communism, it only works if everyone plays with a straight deck. Our very human nature often precludes that. If I was in government, I'd probably soon realise that "open government" is naive, at best.
In precis, we can't have what we aspire to because we don't deserve it.
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I don't know. I dislike censorship and genuinely believe people would be better served by living in a world that had no concept of lying. But that's the idealist me.
The realist know that, like with Communism, it only works if everyone plays with a straight deck. Our very human nature often precludes that. If I was in government, I'd probably soon realise that "open government" is naive, at best.
In precis, we can't have what we aspire to because we don't deserve it.