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Scenario 2: You confide in your friend that you find one of your boss's habits so disgusting you don't even want to be in the same room with him. Your "friend"
by kstenerud 2y ago
Scenario 2:
You confide in your friend that you find one of your boss's habits so disgusting you don't even want to be in the same room with him. Your "friend" secretly records the conversation and then gives it to your boss.
Scenario 3:
In confession, you tell your priest that you've had recurring impure thoughts about your best friend's wife. The priest records the conversation and gives it to your friend "in the interests of bringing everything into the open".
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- EmmyPenumbra 2y agoScenario 3 is an example of a privileged conversation. Simply repeating the conversation to others is itself a violation of the applicable rule. Recording the conversation and playing it back to others is simply the other side of the same coin. Two-party consent laws are constitutional ONLY if the underlying conversation is privileged and cannot be repeated to others, even in the absence of a recording.