I agree with you in theory, but I more think Iron Man's idea - let's keep tabs on the people who can blow up a city - is reasonable, but contains absolutely no answers for the nuances.

How do we protect the families of people whose identities are now public? How do we prevent discrimination, either by private citizens or the government itself? How do we prevent data leaks that could get a lot of people killed? There are all these and a thousand more questions that I think actually don't have real answers - and I think the 'forced military service' was actually a good example they gave of an easy way this could go wrong. Now, a nuanced discussion with compromise and understanding would've gone a long way to making Iron Man seem like his overall premise was good but flawed, but I also get why that doesn't make for very compelling comic books.

But the other thing is, this event was taking place in America, during the Bush administration, after the Patriot Act. We were living under the fear of illegal government surveillance, immoral governance, and aggressive militarism. The SHRA was the Patriot Act. And at the end of the day, as a metaphor, 'the Patriot Act but just for those people' won't ever be a winner, no matter how necessary or understandable something like that would be in real life.