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This is exactly the argument for privacy. Privacy is about agreed lines because we know that there are some places where we just won't get along. The "if you ha
by peterlk 6y ago
This is exactly the argument for privacy. Privacy is about agreed lines because we know that there are some places where we just won't get along. The "if you have nothing to hide" argument assumes that you want to see the things that I'm hiding. In this case, people are hiding their political affiliation (or at least their explicitly expressed opinions) because we know that if it was shared, all of our lives would be harder.
- roenxi 6y agoPrivacy is slightly different - it has a temporal aspect. Eg, religion on a census, for obvious reasons looking back at last century. The consensus against retrospective punishment is a lot weaker than people might expect, and who knows what new social crimes the future will bring.