I don’t think people care. At all. They will argue: “The only people who have anything to hide are criminals and terrorists.” They will say, “This will never affect me directly, I do nothing wrong. I want my security from all the bad things(tm) out there! Protect me!” They will cry out, “The slippery slope is nothing but a fallacy, and you’re an idiot for thinking it could ever be used against decent people.”

And, when their lives are torn apart because the only real reason to have such broad and encompassing access is to monitor the average person... and that there are some truly cruel and horrid people in the world who would not hesitate to take advantage of this, who will use these cases in the United States as the gold standard to justify their actions... when all this comes to pass, they will be the first to say:

“How did we come to this?”



Hopefully, someone will dredge up this comment on this article, print it out, crumple it into a ball, and shove it down their throats...

Of course, for some people it will never come to pass. They will vocally deny any one was ever damaged by this without deserving to be damaged by it - meanwhile there will be vast numbers of people left disenfranchised and destroyed simply because they were somehow unworthy by the standards of those who “matter” . And by the very definition of what will happen to these disenfranchised people , they will never be able to speak up, never be able to tell their story. And those who do advocate for them will be ignored... simply because having some people “win” and a lot of people “lose” is the only thing they truly support.

At the end of the day, life is the choices we make. If you choose to support the government’s stance... you are making a choice. And if you choose to support Apple... you are making another. Ask yourself... is the loss of freedom worth the tiny bit of security that might come from this? Our founding fathers had an answer to this. It began with “Hell” and ended with “no” - with a lot of pain and blood between those two words. And for all the good and evil that came with that... would it be wise just to throw it away? Not for me.



Life is choice. Choose wisely.

