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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (56905)	9/5/2002 1:53:19 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

It is that old saying--(I forget who, now)--"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead". My rsponse to JC was partly to balance his snide and feigned depth of emotional agrievement. I have little doubt that he has read priviledged information privately sent to his SI poster wife--the sender having no idea he/she was also "sharing" with the righteous and upright Mr. Dithers. I was considering whether or not he was being phoney and hypocritical. At the same time, the issue is a legitimate one. I can think of innumerable circumstances where posters could legitimately consider their privacy to be unfairly compromised because they had private communications shared without permission. I understand your point that any SI member may share with any other SI member--or any other person,for that matter. In life we cannot put lights or traffic control devices at every intersection. Yet we put them at some. I like to think about these sorts of things. "Mine are pretty good. But then I don't feel obligated to test them by engaging in sharing personal information" I know that. I am very confident in my ability to read people. "There are things even my best friends don't and won't know about me." I still remember something in the first few chapters of "We the Living" where she emoted on the privacy of some inner essence that belonged solely to her, and that ought not to be touched by anyone. It is funny, after all the things we read and think, how some things stay with us until we die...