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... but your arguments are very convincing. Can’t we have both "public interest" and "individual rights"? I wonder if you would define the words coerce and defraud more fully than you have here. Coercion comes in many forms. It is at best a concept that is very hard to pin down. Truth and fraud also tend to be nuanced and hard to define. But I do agree with your ideas about public interest, and it certainly is or can be defined based entirely on the frame of reference of the individual using the term public interest.