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I think you're missing the context. I'm saying that they haven't been able to demonstrate this as evidenced by their actions. So far, what government has produced is precisely the opposite except for the 5% of world governments such as Sweden and Norway that aren't criminal. The rest have demonstrated that they are incapable of being trusted, so they will say this about compassion in order to manipulate you emotionally to surrender to authority. This is the wrong approach.

There is a way to do this right and most people can't tell the difference between a digital panopticon and a fully decentralized digital republic. You will see the panopticon and say "I told you so", but that would be an incorrect assessment. If you want to understand the IT issues involved, this is fairly comprehensive...

To put it another way, should anyone have the power to use the "nuclear football" without consensus? Is anyone worthy of that power? I say the answer is no, but given enough time, an extinction event is all but certain. The only way to save the human race and the planet is to make sure that control such as this is decentralized. If that risk is distributed so that a majority consensus is required for such an act, then the chances of it happening are drastically reduced.