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To: The Philosopher who wrote (6040)	1/23/2004 5:17:51 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

I guess I just have a very simple way of looking at the world. If I know I'm not supposed to be doing something, or looking at something I know I'm not supposed to see, I just don't do it or look at it. I've always been that way. It's how I was brought up. The older I get, the more I realize that my parents had a very simple way of looking at privacy. It's one of the reasons why I live in a place where one barely needs to lock a house, or bother to close curtains or anything else...and that's the only way I could live. A couple of years ago, I read about some study in which people were asked about what kinds of things they think are "okay" to look at. Something like about 75 percent of those asked thought it was okay to look around in people's medicine cupboards when they were in someone's bathroom while visiting. I was absolutely appalled by that. That's something I've never done -- and when I'm at someone's house, if they have open shelving in their bathroom, I make a point of not looking at things like medicine bottles on their shelves. I know it's none of my damned business to be looking at that kind of thing, so I just damned well don't do it. I guess I belong to a very small percentage of the population who have no desire to look into other people's files, their databases, their networks, their emails, their lives -- just the same way that I wouldn't look into someone's medicine cupboard, or stare in the windows of their house while walking by on the street. It actually gives me the creeps to think that there's a pretty large percentage of the population wandering around "out there" that sees nothing wrong with invading other people's privacy -- whether we're talking personal, business or politics. Same damned difference. If that's what the world is coming to, then it's probably just as well that I don't have to bother too much with the rest of the human race these days. croc