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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Objectively, empirically, it's pretty obvious that you're wrong -- he had a reasonably expectation of privacy.
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How? What does he do to enforce this privacy right? If he can't enforce it, in what sense does it exist?
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I didn't say that, but I think she did something she shouldn't have done
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How? What is the sanction for this wrongdoing? If there is none, in what sense should she not have done it?
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My question was whether *you* thought she should have done it.
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I think she appropriately highlighted conduct that's not okay even if not sanctionable. How are you possibly still asking me that? What she did was appropriate, if poorly handled by babe.net.
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And the idea that people surrender their privacy for the greater good of enlightenment in sexual politics strikes me as a terribly illiberal view, a sexual version of destroying a village to save it.
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How many time do I have to say he has no privacy right in keeping his inappropriate conduct toward her secret should she choose to make it public? How many times can you fail to even remotely articulate a theory under which he has such a privacy right? Under what theory can he make her not tell the truth about him? None, because he has no such privacy right.
And he doesn't for obvious reasons, including the fact that such a right would chill the speech of victims of actionable misconduct too. We don't get to sue the people who accuse us of wrongdoing unless they are intentionally lying for exactly that reason.
