Politicians propose to forbid all buildings from having doors. After all "bad people/stuff etc." could lock the doors and hide behind them. Anyone arguing against that is obviously against safety.
Counterpoints:
- Do we currently have a big door problem?
- Wait, don't doors also serve an important function?
- Won't that make everybody much more insecure and basically do nothing against "bad stuff"?
- What if I put a wooden plank in front of the hole in my building? Wouldn't that be a "door"? Making doors illegal is not going to stop people from making "doors".
Now, people like to spin this analogy further and revise their proposal and say "Fine, keep your doors, but I get a spare key for every door made".
Problems with this:
- Yes, you and everyone in your office can grab the spare key and steal all my stuff (see TSA locks and basically any time in history that was tried).
- Remember the wooden plank above? That guy will not give you a spare key and can still hide "bad stuff".
- Fine, we will just use magical (blockchain) keys that nobody can steal and not make things insecure, but have an officer visit and inspect every room you have every 5 minutes. You have nothing to hide, do you?
Counterpoints:
- Do we currently have a big door problem?
- Wait, don't doors also serve an important function?
- Won't that make everybody much more insecure and basically do nothing against "bad stuff"?
- What if I put a wooden plank in front of the hole in my building? Wouldn't that be a "door"? Making doors illegal is not going to stop people from making "doors".
Now, people like to spin this analogy further and revise their proposal and say "Fine, keep your doors, but I get a spare key for every door made".
Problems with this:
- Yes, you and everyone in your office can grab the spare key and steal all my stuff (see TSA locks and basically any time in history that was tried).
- Remember the wooden plank above? That guy will not give you a spare key and can still hide "bad stuff".
- Fine, we will just use magical (blockchain) keys that nobody can steal and not make things insecure, but have an officer visit and inspect every room you have every 5 minutes. You have nothing to hide, do you?