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You can make this work in the other direction:

"Would you be ok with government employees or law enforcement indiscriminately opening the letters of illegal immigrants?"

You'd immediately get the answer yes. Of course, in order to find the illegal immigrant letters they have to open _all_ of the letters.

People will give law enforcement huge amounts of power because they think it will be used against groups they don't like.




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