Trusting the free software community or trusting one single proprietary software company is indeed analog to trusting all citizens (democracy) or trusting one single dictator. You can say it is the same because it is trusting in both cases. It is not. The users/citizens deserves the control on their computing/government. They deserve to decide for themselves. Dictator/proprietary software developers deny that control, which is unjust. That does not mean free software/democracy is perfect. Even less that it is the solution to all problems. But that is certainly not a reason to "remove the 'ethics' and 'freedom'".

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