Not really, the rocket and the payload would have the same momentum unless an additional force is applied between them.

Why? You could also just use a spring to push it out.

And what happens to the rocket from the reaction force from the spring?

Nothing, because you used a spring to launch the other satellite on the other side of the payload at the same time.

Or, you just use thrusters, like the ones that launched from the Shuttle did.

Freedom is an end in and of itself. You don't have to show that a freedom will benefit a person in another way for it to have value.

Did all the dictators get together and decide on the phrase "national security" as the go to when implementing authoritarian laws?

No. They just copied the US and UK showing them how to do it, immediately after 9/11.

If this was true, why is photoshop a thing?

You don't have anything to backup your assertion (or even have the possibility of evidence, before what you are assertion is what's in the mind of people).

When I browse through a fashion magazine, most models are unknown to me, they might as well be AI-gen.

The people that you know that tries to sell you cloth comprise a small fraction of people-images that you are exposed to.

You could can easily apply this logic to say "we should revoke laws that make it illegal to drive without a seat belt", or dozens of other examples.

Humans are notorious for thinking "I'm in a real hurry, I'll leave the safety system off because I likely won't get hurt". We know that laws, rules and protocols with enforcement and negative consequences are required in order to make humans act safely at scale.

If you surrender control to a doctor to perform a surgery, and the doctor decides to stab you in the heart, why aren't you responsible for being stabbed, since you chose to 'completely surrender control'?

The fines should be 100 billion. Make them itch a little.

Because the US isn't a feudal state where the phrase 'a king's ransom' is used literally.

And that's a good thing.