kinda-ish. the love letters of James Joyce to Nora are surely a gross violation of privacy that would never be ethically allowed now -- the only reason it is t

kinda-ish. the love letters of James Joyce to Nora are surely a gross violation of privacy that would never be ethically allowed now -- the only reason it is tolerated is due to the historical nature of the character in question. Similarly I can imagine outrage if the personal conversation of two famous people were somehow released to the public during a time relevant to the people at hand, especially if the conversation was somehow risque or damning. and by all accounts it's easier to have documents stolen now than it was when conceptually a document was a paper sitting in a safe or a bookshelf. So, in principle I don't think that the writing itself is unethical, however that information could be considered privileged, in which case it's unethical not to make every possible attempt at securing it. In other words the act isn't unethical but it can quickly snowball into ethically grey territory.