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>Personally I'd like to get back to a world where the fate of civilization is not the responsibility of every individual to worry about on a daily basis.

Then your only choice is an unfree world. Maintaining freesom requires constant vigilance because those who want power and control never sleep.

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Rubbish. Bob from the car factory can take a sabbatical without the free world sliding into tyranny. In fact, very little that I have done in my life - if anything at all - has had any appreciable effect on free society. This is the kind of "I know this is rubbish but it conveys an ethos I want to convey" statement that's sending language and meaning into decline.

A single individual slacking on maintaining a free society isn't going to end everything, I agree. That was never my point. Collectively, the majority of people in a society must maintain vigilance.

Why? Why a ‘majority’? What if I think the number is 20%?

Because those who don't care will out-vote you.

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