Compliance.

It's one of the thing I hated about a US-based Bitcoin company I worked with in the past - they closed up shop because of "impossible" compliance, rather than working around this.

Sometimes, you have to resist.

However, if you're already non-compliant, then mass surveillance is very threatening.

PS: I'd say that we have both, today, everywhere.

Definitely B).

One can retain dignity even while having great injustices done to them.

One cannot retain dignity when bowing to the injustice.