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Maybe your culture is healthier than mine. But the other day, there was a link to the Wikipedia article on the con man who sold the Eiffel Tower: https://en.wi
by jensen123 11y ago
Maybe your culture is healthier than mine. But the other day, there was a link to the Wikipedia article on the con man who sold the Eiffel Tower:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Lustig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Lustig
At the bottom, there is the "Ten Commandments for Con Men". They include "wait for the other person to reveal any political opinions, then agree with them" and "let the other person reveal religious views, then have the same ones". There is a reason why con artists do this. People in general tend to like people who are similar to themselves, and often dislike people who are different.
Privacy makes it possible for people who are different from each other to live in harmony.
- StavrosK 11y agoNo, I definitely agree that we need privacy, I'm just saying that that's a bad example. A better argument and would be that, without privacy, there can be no social change, as e.g. homosexuality would forever be considered a mental illness and "treated". With privacy, society can involve in private until the new forms are strong enough to become mainstream.
- jensen123 11y agoOk, I see. Yeah, I see now that some of my examples (potato chips etc.) were not very good. Lack of privacy preventing social change is a great point.