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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
They haven't so far.
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Laws and security aren't static. They are invented, developed, and refined. Most of them come about when the
majority of society agrees that it is not only for the good of all to develop the security, but it is for the good of all to accept and adhere to it. That's why there are locks on doors and trespassing laws, which act together in a hybrid system to provide protection and establish punishment for violation.
Today's realities are pushing us towards biometric security, as identity theft becomes more common and more serious... eventually, the public will almost certainly find itself
demanding the use of biometric security, to protect lives and property that cannot be kept secure in any other way.
There will always be those who oppose such increases in security (especially scofflaws). But as the methods are put in use and prove their worth in the preservation of lives and property, even most of those who opposed the security will grudgingly accept it in time. Eventually, no one will even remember what life was like before that.
Don't believe it? Open a history book... there are many examples of that happening in most every society. And it is a LOT more likely than a future in which no one works for a living, everything is free and there is plenty for all. Anyone who denies it is essentially denying real, basic, demonstrated human nature, which is the cornerstone of modern society.
The internet may provide for a number of changes to society, especially in terms of communications. But it has not changed basic human nature, nor will it in the foreseeable future. We are no more around the corner from Utopia than we are from growing organs in our elbows that will allow us to take our astral bodies to the nineteenth dimension.