What must we, as individuals, sacrifice to facilitate public order? Do we ever give up too much in the interest of public record? If so, when?

Public
order, rather than a necessity for public "good," is a necessity for the continuation
of nation-states and status-quo control over groups of people. Individuals are encouraged to
self-police and police others in order to maintain public order, which is necessary to police
populations because there are more civilians than there are state agents. Thus, police not only
rely on the power of their own enforcement to maintain order, but also rely heavily on self- and
community-based policing in which those deemed to be trouble makers are ostracized or turned in
to state agents.

The state...