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Arthur B. Insecurity is often created to encash it for own benefits but it is also a warning signal to take an immediate and emergent action. Any ignorance of a “genuine insecurity” created by an act or omission may bring catastrophic results. How will you justify the foolish insecurity shown by false sense of lack of Data Protection laws in India on the basis of just two incidences? That false insecurity has further necessitated the unnecessary and redundant changes in the Indian laws. So everything cannot be judged on golden scales and in perfect parameters.

I agree that trying to resolve design flaws afterwards without changing the fundamental design might seem like a good idea to the clueless but in reality will only get half the results for double the money and triple the effort. In short, you are pointing towards the option of “calculated precautionary measures” and reminding me of the maxim that “prevention is better than cure”.

Now the question of great importance, as rightly and importantly raised by you, is whether we should fight causes or symptoms? The answer to this question, in my personal opinion, is that we cannot fight against causes unless and until we are aware about the symptoms. Have you ever seen any doctor prescribing medicines without diagnosing the symptoms? It is always easy to tell that a person is suffering from some disease but what disease he is suffering from can only be told after the symptoms are diagnosed and then causes are remedied.

In any case, we share the common concerns of greater number of good for greater number of people, but our modes and modalities are different.

I respectfully disagree with certain of your learned observations but I will always respect your right to speech and expression.

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