The only issue is figuring out who belongs to a secret society. The very fact they are secret makes it a bit difficult. Besides, how do you justify banning people congregating or banding together? I'm pretty sure there are lots of secret groups that don't advertise their membership or want their identities known. I'm also sure that not all anonymous groups are necessarily bad. Think of all the anonymous groups associated with addictions. Should we ban those groups because we don't have their identities? Who are we now? We want Identification from anyone that belongs to a group? Sounds like the polar opposite of what we stand for.
The way is to find people doing bad things and punish them. I don't think punishing everyone or curtailing the rights of everyone for the bad actions of a few is a great idea. It kinda got us here slowly over time. Now we have so many laws that ban everything from media hyped actions of a few and our rights have eroded so badly, there is practically no freedom left.
The only issue is figuring out who belongs to a secret society. The very fact they are secret makes it a bit difficult. Besides, how do you justify banning people congregating or banding together? I'm pretty sure there are lots of secret groups that don't advertise their membership or want their identities known. I'm also sure that not all anonymous groups are necessarily bad. Think of all the anonymous groups associated with addictions. Should we ban those groups because we don't have their identities? Who are we now? We want Identification from anyone that belongs to a group? Sounds like the polar opposite of what we stand for.
I see your point. It's good to have this conversation though. We have to find a way.
The way is to find people doing bad things and punish them. I don't think punishing everyone or curtailing the rights of everyone for the bad actions of a few is a great idea. It kinda got us here slowly over time. Now we have so many laws that ban everything from media hyped actions of a few and our rights have eroded so badly, there is practically no freedom left.