Re: Privacy

Ian Goddard (igoddard@erols.com)
Sun, 08 Dec 1996 15:50:40 -0500


It was thus written by an entity unknown:

>> In our present society, where scarciety rules and it is necessary to
>> retain privacy of ideas which might produce wealth for oneself, it seems
>> that some kind of privacy is necessary.

IAN: The only "right to privacy" I have is a right to the privacy I'm
able to maintain. For example, if I don't want to be seen naked, then
I'd better build a house, put me in it and close the windows when naked.
If I don't close my windows, I cannot tell people in exterior properties
that they cannot examine the photons traveling from my property onto
theirs which convey information about my property, and indeed, such
a claim on my part would violate private-property protocols.

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