User blog comment:Imouto-tan/Grand Magic Council/@comment-4867780-20161023025518/@comment-4867780-20161023213731

Hypocrisy alright ^ ^; Made thrice worse about something so important, and by the very authority that were entrusted with upholding the laws. But I fear this hypocrisy is just inevitable, as you ultimately cannot protect a society from its most insidious ennemies (organized crime, terrorism and other governments notably) without some level of unofficial arbitrary power. These ennemies hide within the system after all, and would easily manipulate the public opinion into facilitating their dirty works if the government's legal violations were publicly exposed.

I wish these dark matters would at least be talked about with an open heart, explain that the greater good simply cannot be protected from this kind of ennemy without dirtying your hands one way or another, just like our very lives cannot go on without consumming those of lesser beings (it's clearly evil but we consent to it anyway, because we simply have no choice).

And once the dust has settled on past cases, they should be disclosed and the legitimacy of the violations ordered/endorsed by the government would be judged by the governed, so the first don't get funny ideas and degenerate into a public mafia, where anything goes as long as you don't get caught.

But I guess it would just incite them to collude and fake proofs in order to cover their collective backs, and with so much power they definitely can pull it off. Both humans and societies are heavily flawed, so there will still be tons of crap going on no matter what we do or don't do.

The only alternative would be to nuclearize the country into oblivion, wiping out all potential sinners to prevent the unavoidable from happening. I guess it defeats the purpose, but then again it was a thoroughly hopeless one in the first place, so maybe it's not that much of loss.

As always, it entirely depends where you personally stand. Do you benefit from these legal violations, or do you suffer from them ? In the first case, it's alright. In the second, it's terrible. On this subject like on any other, it all boils down to personal interest in the end.