I think whether you find this useful or dangerous hinges entirely on your perspective on governments and history.
If you are sure governments are mostly a force for good and democracy is suited to keep it that way indefinitly, overpowered permissions like these have no real downside.
As engineers we certainly also ask ourselves how systems fail when something goes wrong, even if all we do is to prevent this. This kind of power is not only a possibility for a state to become more powerful, it is also the perfect ethnic genocide toolkit and therefore something that makes it substancially more dangerous for a state to fail.
Separation of powers, the oversight of the press, limited power and information for the state over the individual without good reason – all these mechanisms are there for a systemic reason. These reasons are sometimes only to make it harder for governments to drift into unlawful and unjust behaviour. Any change to the balance of power between executive, juridicative, legislative ans public should be carefully considered before executed.
So this must really pay off in order to be useful enough to justify the risk that comes with it, including the (in?)effectiveness of punishments and the cost of prevention through other means than harsh punishment.
If you are sure governments are mostly a force for good and democracy is suited to keep it that way indefinitly, overpowered permissions like these have no real downside.
As engineers we certainly also ask ourselves how systems fail when something goes wrong, even if all we do is to prevent this. This kind of power is not only a possibility for a state to become more powerful, it is also the perfect ethnic genocide toolkit and therefore something that makes it substancially more dangerous for a state to fail.
Separation of powers, the oversight of the press, limited power and information for the state over the individual without good reason – all these mechanisms are there for a systemic reason. These reasons are sometimes only to make it harder for governments to drift into unlawful and unjust behaviour. Any change to the balance of power between executive, juridicative, legislative ans public should be carefully considered before executed.
So this must really pay off in order to be useful enough to justify the risk that comes with it, including the (in?)effectiveness of punishments and the cost of prevention through other means than harsh punishment.