privacy

I fixed the community link, I originally had an extra g and forgot the numeral zero in dbzer0. !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

A top level comment I mean by a reply to your own post like you did here. That's where the previous and additional long-form context belongs. Don't force people to scroll past it all in the body text, if it's not the main point of the discussion you wish to have. The body text should be for information relevant to the post title, or treat it like a long subheading. Think of your first reply to your own as having roughly equal weight to every other comment, it sorts itself among the others depending on how useful people feel it is.

...sacrificing some privacy makes us safer. Do you agree?

This portion of the question you posed, perhaps you didn't mean it this way, but it implies that this is your opinion and you are asking if people agree with it. The way a question is asked often tells a respondent how the asker feels. A skeptic towards the effectiveness of surveillance asking the same question would phrase it more like: "Do you buy the idea that surveillance prevents terrorism and is good for safety?"

If you get the point, allow me to suggest a better presentation that has the questioner start at a neutral position: "To what level, in your opinion, is national surveillance in the name of safety and terrorism prevention acceptable? Does this change between authoritarian governments vs. democracies?" I can explain why this is more conducive to discussion than the other two if you need.

...people who are incapable of rational thinking

Yeah nah, that part is an insult by you, at some in the previous thread, but throwing insults begets insults. The surrounding observations explaining how you came to that subjective opinion doesn't change that. Hence my suggestion to leave them out if you want better discussion in a new thread, this is also part of the change in approach I recommend. While best omitted entirely, an example of a way to say effectively what you had wrote but without insults, would be "The quality of some of the replies I received were not as I had hoped".