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I'm asking: 'why do people feel personally intruded on?' which we could then use to answer the question as you interpreted it: 'why does it change the behavior
by msutherl 11y ago
I'm asking: 'why do people feel personally intruded on?' which we could then use to answer the question as you interpreted it: 'why does it change the behavior of the population?'
- anigbrowl 11y agoWell, suppose I decided to be a communist, albeit one that rejects violence. Living in the United States, this would subject one to all sorts of potential problems when dealing with officialdom, even though there's no Constitutional barrier to it, unless you are using very narrow definitions of communism, and even then one could legally amend the Constitution to get around those problems. It's not that I feel warm to communism, but that I want the liberty to adhere to an unorthodox idea should I encounter a sufficiently compelling on. If there are socioeconomic penalties for the development (not necessarily the expression of or action upon) such unorthodox beliefs, then we're in an era or soft Orwellian thoughtfcrime.
- msutherl 11y agoIn what way is this threatened under current conditions? It seems your biggest risk would be i.e. compromise of your email account by hackers, not surveillance by intelligence agencies.
- ionised 11y agoI answered your question. If it changes the population, it directly affects me. I'm not sure what you're not getting.
- msutherl 11y agoIf that's your answer, then we also need to answer "why does it change the population?" What I suspect is that it affects the population via emotional response, which in turn affects you, so you have a kind of second-order response.