"Would you rather live in a country where you could be randomly kidnapped, raped and killed by a roaming gang like ISIS or know what the rules are and avoid that fate by hiding your criticism of the state."

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If you think that living under a dictatorship protects you against being "randomly kidnapped, raped and killed" even if you "know what the rules are and avoid that fate by hiding your criticism of the state", you know little about dictatorships.

And no one should have to live in fear of critcizing the state or anyone else.