Authoritarianism leads to violation of human rights. Besides that, the onus of justification should be on the side in favor of government control. You should need a good reason to restrict someone from performing an action they desire to.

Not to mention that when the people have no power and are not free to criticize their government, you can easily get some dystopia full of rampant government corruption and nepotism.

Governments should not be "disappearing" their own citizens. There should be a transparent, fair, evenly-applied process. Hard to hold governments accountable when they exert too much control.

At this point I feel like I'm about to be reprimanded for using HN as an "ideological battleground" or something.

What a great UX decision green usernames are