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It's important but 'most important of our time'?
by nickthemagicman 6y ago
It's important but 'most important of our time'?
- jurgenaut23 6y agoThis is what happens when you read only technical blogs and books and you spent so much time in front of a computer that the whole of reality seems amenable to some form of online/virtual experience.
- robertlagrant 6y agoIt's a sign that we live in the best times ever.
- neolog 6y agoThere's a long essay making the argument if you click the link at the top of the page.
- GoblinSlayer 6y ago1984 was due to lack of privacy, without privacy you can be deprived of the first level of Maslow pyramid. What's more important?
- umilegenio 6y agoMy argument is that without privacy we cannot build and defend other rights. Privacy allows to define private, social and public spaces with different rules. Without privacy your private stuff can be shared with the public. You could lose your jobs because you said something that your community does not approve. Privay in the modern world is like borders. Without borders we cannot really decide which laws to apply, because anybody could come in and go, so it would become impossible to enforce any kind of law.
- nickthemagicman 6y agoIs that more important than global warming? When you're standing in the center of a fire or you're a refugee because your city is underwater, it's also difficult to defend other rights. My argument is that the headline is click bait to get eyeballs. Whatever, more power to you. Hope they sign up for your newsletter.
- woopwoop 6y agoIndependently of the rest of your argument, the claim that open borders make it impossible to enforce any kind of law is falsified by, for example, U.S. states and municipalities, which enforce their own laws and have open borders with each other.