Indeed, they can't be, because rights and freedoms that we value often conflict, and then we have to determine which of two good things we should prioritise when we would like to support both if that were possible.
Still, there is a reason that legal systems tend to place protection of fundamental rights and freedoms high up, such that it requires a more serious harm to the rights and freedoms of others to justify infringing on them. It's to challenge the erosion of legal protections by successive temporary governments at the expense of the people.
If governments want to mandate an end to meaningful security in telecommunications, that is both a practical threat to everyone's safety in numerous small ways and a more fundamental threat to the nature of democracy itself. To justify such a draconian measure, the harm to other rights and freedoms that is being defended against must be greater.
In my experience, neither my own government nor its allies has got within the same galaxy as clearing that bar yet, and that is why I do not support this kind of proposal and will typically vote against anyone who does regardless of any other policies they have.
Indeed, they can't be, because rights and freedoms that we value often conflict, and then we have to determine which of two good things we should prioritise when we would like to support both if that were possible.
Still, there is a reason that legal systems tend to place protection of fundamental rights and freedoms high up, such that it requires a more serious harm to the rights and freedoms of others to justify infringing on them. It's to challenge the erosion of legal protections by successive temporary governments at the expense of the people.
If governments want to mandate an end to meaningful security in telecommunications, that is both a practical threat to everyone's safety in numerous small ways and a more fundamental threat to the nature of democracy itself. To justify such a draconian measure, the harm to other rights and freedoms that is being defended against must be greater.
In my experience, neither my own government nor its allies has got within the same galaxy as clearing that bar yet, and that is why I do not support this kind of proposal and will typically vote against anyone who does regardless of any other policies they have.