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Hypocritical? How many of your personal secrets (or even your corporate secrets) would cause >= thousands of people to die or >= billions of taxpayer dollars to
by fouric 7y ago
Hypocritical? How many of your personal secrets (or even your corporate secrets) would cause >= thousands of people to die or >= billions of taxpayer dollars to be lost if they were leaked?
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- huehehue 7y agoI don't think people with more impactful secrets deserve more privacy than anybody else.
- fmihaila 7y ago> How many of your personal secrets (or even your corporate secrets) would cause >= thousands of people to die or >= billions of taxpayer dollars to be lost if they were leaked? Personal means, and should continue to mean, something. I'm not willing to let governments define what is personal to me.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoSuppose I am a pedophile and somebody discovers that. They then use that as a leverage against me to perform something entirely else, which is illegal, too. In the context of our society, me being a pedophile is better than me being a pedophile who also does other illegal things to cover that up.
- eru 7y agoThat's only true after the fact. Up front the prospect of even greater damage might deter people. Similar to how punishing wrong-doers in general doesn't help anyone after the fact, but one justification people bring up is deterrence before the fact. (I profess no firm opinion in the matter. This is just giving the argument a steelmanning.)
- bertil 7y agoI suspect your example would be more compelling if you used a first breach in ethics that would be less heinous. Cheating on your spouse is a common one to defend privacy of bad people; tax dodging if you want something illegal.