Serious (offtopic) metaquestion: why is the postmodern view that all people, including violent criminals, are victims/products of their environment, but racists are uniquely and irredeemably evil to their core?
Are you legitimately suggesting intelligence agencies should be permitted unfettered realtime full-take access to arbitrary private companies' registration systems?
HN is indeed increasingly pro-helplessness. My personal hypothesis is that it's actually merely a second-order effect. The community tends toward pro-specialization which leads to the tenet that personal security ought to be conducted by specialists.
Serious (offtopic) metaquestion: why is the postmodern view that all people, including violent criminals, are victims/products of their environment, but racists are uniquely and irredeemably evil to their core?