It&#x27;s a placeholder, and talking about it is distracting from the point (the &quot;point&quot; being maybe we can have both privacy and safety, and that the dichotomy is false).  There is undeniably <i>some</i> activity that we can both agree is evil, and therefore we can talk about Evil without having to figure out exactly what that activity is.<p>Or rather, we could if you were being intellectually honest.<p>Most people, if given the choice, will nearly always pick safety over privacy.  It&#x27;s simply not enough to say you can&#x27;t have both, because privacy <i>will</i> eventually get thrown out by the electorate, of any country.