Being dumb invites parasitism. Humans are dumb. Hence we WILL be parasited. Not just by governments, but also by lots of smaller predators.
That doesn't mean that all parasites are as bad as each other. Yet it is never OK to confuse any parasite with a "friend" or "symbiont".
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When sick with flu, you don't go raving about how much nicer than Ebola it is—in both cases you genocide all parasites you can in your body
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See Amilcare Puviani's notion of "fiscal illusion", or Raymond Ruyer's more general notion of "psychological potential for exploitation".
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