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Comment by Yizahi | Hacker News Reader

The real root cause of many societal problems is that a significant portion of the population everywhere across the world is either unable or unwilling to think more than one step ahead. This why I believe most dumb decisions are voted for. One immigrant was bad? Lets ban all immigrants. One criminal slipped the police? Lets allow spying on his chat and catch him. Etc.

People refuse to think ahead, or simply can't.

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Countries like Denmark are civilised and do spend literally billions on trying to protect and nourish children. And it is a credit to these nations and the people who dwell in them.

But the reality is that there will always be a scumbag dad who decides to molest his daughter.

HN assumes evil but this is a "road paved with good intentions" kind of deal.

In this particular case it is obviously evil and misguided. There is no "iron wall" around EU phones or EU computers, a criminal can install literally anything on their PC and almost anything on their phones. So the real actual criminal won't be affected by the change at all, they will use software without backdoors for their shady stuff. This is obvious to everyone really, so this leads to a conclusion that the real reason for the enforced breaking of encryption is to spy on the political opposition, on the business competitors and in general promote a healthy fear and paranoia in society. Just what we need, in the age when EU enemies are acquiring more and more collaborators and tools inside EU, to disrupt and hopefully destroy the union.

> HN assumes evil but this is a "road paved with good intentions" kind of deal.

They are the same picture. Every evil person thinks they have good intentions. The Nazis were literally thinking and saying they resurrect the German nation and lead Germany to the eternal, "thousand year long" empire.

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