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The core issue for me in the privacy debate is not about our personal life choices - we as humans are becoming more and more tolerant every day, witness the ris

by marquis 13y ago

The core issue for me in the privacy debate is not about our personal life choices - we as humans are becoming more and more tolerant every day, witness the rise of gay marriage rights and marijuana acceptance. For me it's about needing privacy between you and the power structure - restrictive laws are constantly being proposed and overturned thanks to our ability to organize in private. To go back to gay marriage as an example: there was a time when homosexuality was illegal. We'd never have gay marriage if we had the ability to shuffle through everyone's innuendo and crosstalk in the last decades and put restrictions on that activity, or know that a group of people regularly gathered at certain locations. Take civil rights: imagine Rosa Parks calls MLK while she's waiting to get on the bus (she was a community leader, not a random instant-activist). If she made and communicated that decision to sit at the front before she got on she could have been arrested, significantly delaying historical change. We need privacy from the power structures to maintain those rights to organize and protest and change laws, and I honestly don't see why those who are yelling about not giving up their guns because of the right to keep arms against government overrule aren't applying exactly the same concept to their right to privacy.

sanderjd 13y ago
I think many gun rights activists are applying the same concept to privacy. One of the most encouraging things I've experienced in this debate is that while it certainly seems divisive, the divisions don't seem to be along party lines, or even particularly obvious ideological lines. I've argued with people I almost always agree with and agreed with people I almost always argue with. It is actually refreshing that there is actually a debate happening and that the debate seems to involve more individual opinions and less of the usual blocs.

by marquis 13y ago

sanderjd 13y ago

I think many gun rights activists are applying the same concept to privacy. One of the most encouraging things I've experienced in this debate is that while it certainly seems divisive, the divisions don't seem to be along party lines, or even particularly obvious ideological lines. I've argued with people I almost always agree with and agreed with people I almost always argue with. It is actually refreshing that there is actually a debate happening and that the debate seems to involve more individual opinions and less of the usual blocs.