The Digital ID platform is an overcorrection to a real problem. The problem is not knowing who is who. That IS a real problem. There are scams and illegals and bots, but requiring law-abiding citizens to submit to total control only creates a worse problem.
But overcorrection to real problems is not limited to government apparatchiks and control freaks. I see people overcorrecting all the time, with a regression to old school racism in the face of catastrophic unchecked immigration, for example. Yes, uncivilized third-worlders unsuited to open western cultures do commit more crimes, shouldn’t be allowed in without proper vetting. But I see way too many people wanted to ban “Muslims” generally or people generally from particular countries of origin, making the argument along *racial* lines.
What happened to judging people by the content of their character? What happened to the focus on the individual rather than the collective?
The midwit always wants a simple heuristic to solve complex problems and hence overcorrects when problems arise, creating a new set of problems. Collectivism, of which racism is but one subset, is never the solution.
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Secure the border, stop treating illegal aliens better than citizens. Not too extreme eh?
not extreme at all