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Also it is not binary but is a multidimensional spectrum. The combination of acceptable and expected varies all the time so I wonder where we end up.
Some things are even required to be kept private (e.g. certain aspects of sexual life) while others are expected to be something no one needs to hide.
Sometimes I think this is where privacy argument fails. Blanket privacy doesn't make sense to the most people so they just dismiss fight for such just like they dismiss radical pacifists, anarchists, vegans and everyone else with all or nothing standpoint.
@shuro
> Some things are even required to be kept private (e.g. certain aspects of sexual life)
The relationship between sexuality and privacy is a very juicy topic, by the way. There's loads and loads to discuss here, but, I think, that's a topic for another thread.
I see privacy (the intentional kind, at least) as the reverse side of the freedom of speech. If an individual or a group have the right to decide, at their own discretion, what to disclose and to whom, they should as well have the right to decide what *not* to disclose.
Most people don't care about both of those because they, paradoxically, are used to their presence, and are taking them for granted. They have no clear picture in their mind of consequences of them losing those rights, which are really, really not good.
@shuro
> Some things are even required to be kept private (e.g. certain aspects of sexual life)
The relationship between sexuality and privacy is a very juicy topic, by the way. There's loads and loads to discuss here, but, I think, that's a topic for another thread.
I see privacy (the intentional kind, at least) as the reverse side of the freedom of speech. If an individual or a group have the right to decide, at their own discretion, what to disclose and to whom, they should as well have the right...