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    Part-Time Polemic Senior Member ICantSpellDawg's Avatar
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    Default Re: Privacy

    Personally, I don't believe in privacy.

    I think that everyone should know everything about everyone else in the long term. Complete transparency.

    On the one hand, personal lives are opened up under the microscope to a greater extent than ever before. On the other hand, people are given less and less license to invade others personal space and punish for anti-social behavious

    There was a time when taking a girl into your house overnight who wasn't your wife could get you pulled out of bed, tarred and feathered. today, in spite of what some might like to do to you for such an act, you are protected under the law for some of the most despicable acts, even in the workplace.

    Is the new privacy complete transparency without the fear of social reproach? Could it be that our sense of privacy is a vestige of a time when it mattered for our social preservation?
    Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 11-19-2009 at 18:14.
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