I’m ideologically transparency extremist. This means I want absolute openness for everyone. Overwhelming majority of people on lemmy and other places disagree with me, which means that statistically I’m wrong.

I have some strong arguments for my side and most argumentation from your side is just common trolling or logical fallacies, which makes me think that I’m correct.

Even with that, the software I use is probably more private than solid portion of members of this community, becuase almost everything I use is open source.

I want to give your side another chance. I hope for polite and fruitful discussion.

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      Anything that the government considers illegal, but you consider morally good.

      For example helping migrants or military deserters, organizing or participating in squats, etc.

      Even when buying weed if it is illegal where you live you see how privacy is necessary, but the point is that privacy is a tool and not doing anything illegal your whole life is a privilege, not all people will have.

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      I’d argue it’s relevant. In my state it’s illegal to cross a street anywhere that isn’t a crosswalk, but the city is not made to be walkable so there are places where you may walk an entire mile before you can cross. It’s understood by the populace and the authorities that no one is going to walk a two mile loop to get across 20ft of road. Nevertheless, I’ve committed a crime each time I do so and I’ve done it knowingly, on a few times in plain view of law enforcement who did not care.

      In your scenario I would have to self report every time do so and the officer would have to self report every time they let me. Idealistically, this will lead to a world where we assess the poor implementation of this law and rewrite it to address the nuance of the situation. Unfortunately, I’m not the first case of nuance and this law is widely understood to be unenforceable garbage. That hasn’t changed the law. Instead it would mean I’d recieve a fine in the mail each time I report and eventually the person mailing out fines will have to flag me as a flagrant repeat offender which would lead to jail time.

      Even with absolute transparency, the cheapest and most convenient option would be to jail me for crossing a street wrong and the only people that will care enough to act are my immediate family. So to ask what petty laws you may have broken is absolutely relevant to the discussion. Bureaucracies, even when crystal clear, have a way of grinding humans into pulp.

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        In such world you and others who have the same issue would act to fix that, so your local goverment would either change that or provide a satisfactory explanation