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I'm a very private person. I like my privacy. But I really think that privacy has become a huge problem. There are so many people, and they move around so much, and change jobs so often, it has become very, very hard to really know the people in your neighborhood, at work, or in your child's school.

I wouldn't be surprised if expectations of privacy start to become whittled down in the next few years. And to be honest, I'd like to see that happen. There are lunatics and criminals out there, and I for one would like to know who they are. If society cannot lock them up, then at least let me know who they are so I can take steps to protect myself and my family.

To leave these people out in society, and to hide their dangerous nature from other citizens, is a great evil.

How would anyone know?

Many people who are schizophrenic are bright and will hide their *voices* from the world. Sociopaths/psychopaths are also often brilliant and know how to present themselves as the *nice* person.

It isn’t privacy that is the problem, IMO. It is just that the human psyche can take many twists and turns and can also hide behind an acceptable exterior. There are documented cases of people who have committed terrible acts, never been caught, have status in society and are only finally known after years of getting away with things.

I have no idea how we get inside someones head, let alone prevent conditions that are often genetic, often don’t manifest until puberty or beyond and so, are generally unknown until that person breaks and commits some horrendous act.

I fear that any attempt to mandate identification of illness would result in the forced commitment of people who are simply eccentric or who manifest non-PC behavior. I certainly do not want to see attempts at identifying *pre-criminals* or any increase in the drugging of people who perhaps are simply creative and bored within the educational institutions. And if they are identified, what then? We do not now have the capacity to detain and medicate everyone whom we already know are dangerous. Within medical instituions and prisons, people have the right to refuse medication. Again, we have known instances of psychopaths who refuse meds and then kill someone inside the facility.

Be situationally aware and trust your gut with anyone in this world. Even then, most of us cannot identify someone prior to catching them in the act, IMO.

The vast majority of assaults, murders and rapes are those that the offender afflicts on people that he knows.

You have a much higher chance of being in a car accident than you do of any of the above.

The crime ratio has increased, because our population has increased.

And you may want your private information to become public, to protect yourself.

But stay the hell away from my hospital records, my banking records, my tax information, my social security card, my school transcripts, etc. It’s none of your business. I haven’t broken one of your phantom laws, so I shouldn’t have to be punished. I’m a law abiding person with no police record other than minor traffic violations. I shouldn’t have to prove to the world that I am safe to inhabit it.