Time and time again, Americans have gotten an upfront look at what happens when the government becomes overzealous and violates people’s rights.

Typically, the government will justify the violation of liberties by stating it’s necessary for protection, public safety, or other seemingly noble reasons. At the end of the day, however, this is a trap.

Once people give up their freedoms, they shouldn’t count on getting them back at all. There’s absolutely no incentive for the government to restore liberties that it’s already violated.

This knowledge and the historical basis behind it is what makes a brand new poll of Generation Z very concerning, as The Blaze reports.

A new poll from the Cato Institute reveals that 29% of Americans who are younger than 30 support the government placing surveillance cameras in people’s homes for the purposes of stopping abuse and crime.

Thankfully, 75% of the American people collectively oppose this. However, it’s troubling that so much of the next generation believes this to be a good idea.

Cameras in people’s homes, courtesy of the government, opens the door to all sorts of problems. It would essentially create a nanny state where people’s lives are completely void of privacy.

Despite the poll’s findings about 29% of Gen Z, the scenario laid out by the Cato Institute would be nothing more than a nightmare, were it to be seriously implemented.

The argument that everyone should have a camera in their home from the government to cut down on abuse and crime could be used to justify other suspensions of individual liberties.

Again, once you open Pandora’s box and hand the government your rights, you shouldn’t expect them to easily come back to you. At this rate, we should all be asking ourselves why so much of Gen Z doesn’t understand.