I'm very paranoid about thin edges of wedges and slippery slopes and roads to hell and overreach is extremely easy to just keep moving because after all you're doing it for the good of something and it feels like the right thing to do who in their right mind can possibly argue when it's to make sure terrible events never happen again so no one has to go through the pain and anguish. Moreso if it's something that you personally agree with.

Governments are terrible, terrible, terrible at governing people (the irony)

I giggled because why is this so very true XD

can we really defend the position that we aren't all conditioned in some way?

You think that people accept that they've been conditioned or that it has generally negative connotations? Both? I don't know if it's just the people I know/have known but if you mention being conditioned to respond in a certain way it's apparently an affront, even though everything is pretty much conditioning.