First, private business has been already doing it for years, so the notion of privacy is a joke. We have none thanks to advertising industry. So not much is lost when government does it. And I trust government far more than I trust private business.
Second, government did not do anything bad to me, but there is a whole bunch of unsavory characters there who stole or want to steal my money and use me to advance their agenda. This is a real threat that makes a difference in my life. So I am not going to kvetch about government information gathering to catch the characters that want to hurt me. It would be irrational to do otherwise.
And one more thing. I despise American individualist, anti institutional ideology and petite bourgeois sentiments on which it is based. For that reason alone I would spite any anti government sentiment rather than go along with it.
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