I love Steemit because I hear so much more depth than the average rhetoric around topics like this.
As much as I am a pacifist, I also deeply agree with Nahko when he sings, "Well I will learn to be peaceful, but I keep my knife at my side"
We CANNOT abdicate responsibility for ourselves and each other on a micro level, by turning over our authority and autonomy to "The System". Even if we do think The System is here to protect us and help us (I think otherwise)....the fact is that they're a SYSTEM. It's not the same as having human beings coming together to help and protect each other because they live in community and are familiar with each other's needs and issues.
A faceless corporate conglomerate will always work toward homogenization of the masses, and inherent in that goal is the fact that some "rogue outliers" will be left behind, deleted, and forgotten.
The thing is, humanity is not a faceless conglomerate, an amoeba who won't miss the bits of ectoplasm that are cut off when we're sliced by the cookie-cutter laws they apply.
People are individuals, not machines--and so we can't thrive when we're treated like robots.