Would you rather be free or alive? 99% of all people would pick the latter, the last percent are depressed. Oh, some might say that they value their freedom higher than life, but cant words lose all meaning should the choice become a reality. And as little as surveillance can mean to freedom, it's astounding to see (hypocritical) European politicians go through the roof and from a news perspective more than twice as high interest as that of civilian killings (albeit Arabs).
For the record, I previously endorsed stuff like PRISM. It's just that as the surveyor slowly but surely turns totalitarian, so does my conviction that the good guys will keep protecting human lives a top priority fade. I don't believe they're there yet, but in this pace it won't be many years. But nonetheless, this is still a non-question compared to waging two simultaneous wars in which 130,000 civilians have been killed. Thus far.
I've never counted to a thousand. I thought I'd do it when I was a kid, but I never got around to it, and I never will. It's hard to imagine a figure 130 times that number. And these days I have a hard time imagine dying, except for when I'm dreaming; and it never fails to give me a swooning sensation. It's impossible for anyone to understand the meaning of 130,000 civilian kills, and for what? Nothing.
In a couple of apps, I'll try to make one that could help oppressed people feel a little bit less oppressed. I don't know how, but trying is the least I could do.
