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You would be surprised at how many people are completely and utterly boring. How many have so few assets, vanilla history, no embarrassing health issues, and be

You would be surprised at how many people are completely and utterly boring. How many have so few assets, vanilla history, no embarrassing health issues, and believe all drugs are for wastrels. Do not count on being able to embarrass the enemy :) :(

JohnFen 4y ago
Even the most boring person has information they want to keep secret. Banking activity is the obvious one.
- parker_mountain 4y ago
  There's a huge difference between secret because it's embarrassing and secret because it's a pain to deal with fraud. Many of them would have no problem turning all of that banking info over to "the authorities" :)
  - tekknik 4y ago
    i can definitely think of a few things that can come from purchase history that could end careers, relationships or families: 1) Having homophobic parents and buying anything supporting a “non-traditional lifestyle” (like books from a particular vendor) 2) Having liberal parents and buying say a firearm 3) An unfaithful spouse supporting another relationship (remember Ashley Madison?) 4) Being a well known promoter of a particular brand when buying from another for personal use
TillE 4y ago
Lot of people look boring in public but really aren't in private. Also, pretty much everyone is guilty of, at the very very least, numerous traffic violations.
- parker_mountain 4y ago
  > Lot of people look boring in public but really aren't in private. Of course. I am referring to the people who are boring in private, clearly.
BitwiseFool 4y ago
"Everybody lies". Even if the majority of people's history and proclivities are considered "vanilla", those individuals themselves don't want that information being made public, would likely feel some sense of shame if the information got out, and want to avoid any situation where they would be judged or teased. Even if that content is considered relatively tame by a tolerant society.
nobody9999 4y ago
>Do not count on being able to embarrass the enemy Why are you making folks that disagree with you "the enemy?" Just because some doesn't agree with you about a particular issue doesn't mean they are your enemy. They just disagree with you on a particular issue. Assuming they live in the same culture, it's likely that they agree with you on more stuff than they disagree.

JohnFen 4y ago

Even the most boring person has information they want to keep secret. Banking activity is the obvious one.

parker_mountain 4y ago
There's a huge difference between secret because it's embarrassing and secret because it's a pain to deal with fraud. Many of them would have no problem turning all of that banking info over to "the authorities" :)
- tekknik 4y ago
  i can definitely think of a few things that can come from purchase history that could end careers, relationships or families: 1) Having homophobic parents and buying anything supporting a “non-traditional lifestyle” (like books from a particular vendor) 2) Having liberal parents and buying say a firearm 3) An unfaithful spouse supporting another relationship (remember Ashley Madison?) 4) Being a well known promoter of a particular brand when buying from another for personal use

TillE 4y ago

Lot of people look boring in public but really aren't in private. Also, pretty much everyone is guilty of, at the very very least, numerous traffic violations.

parker_mountain 4y ago
> Lot of people look boring in public but really aren't in private. Of course. I am referring to the people who are boring in private, clearly.

BitwiseFool 4y ago

"Everybody lies". Even if the majority of people's history and proclivities are considered "vanilla", those individuals themselves don't want that information being made public, would likely feel some sense of shame if the information got out, and want to avoid any situation where they would be judged or teased. Even if that content is considered relatively tame by a tolerant society.

nobody9999 4y ago

>Do not count on being able to embarrass the enemy Why are you making folks that disagree with you "the enemy?" Just because some doesn't agree with you about a particular issue doesn't mean they are your enemy. They just disagree with you on a particular issue. Assuming they live in the same culture, it's likely that they agree with you on more stuff than they disagree.