Re: Safety vs Security
It's not a choice.
The basic premise of being able to stop all bad actors prior to some event occurring is flawed.
Given this inescapable fact, we accept the risk and live a possibly shorter but definitely freer life.
The alternate is to live in servitude, and there is no safety in that condition.
You might disagree about the word "servitude", and I ask you to consider how under effective blanket surveillance, we'd ever strike down an unjust law again?