As do I ...
Unfortunately, the information about our lives gets to them (them = anyone that wants to know) via many, many sources.
Big brother has been here for years, get use to it. Everything you know about you, someone else is also privy.
For a small fee, I can get any information about you I want or anyone else I choose to know about.
Yet you expect us to acquiesce to this, and quietly accept it?
Like the writer of this slightly libertarian screed, I believe it is not just our Right, but indeed our DUTY to TRY to bequeath the freedoms and wilful vagaries of innocent scoundrelism to the youth of the future.
Without rule bending during adolescence, there can be no joy. The much vaunted "Freedom to Choose" INCLUDES the freedom to make BAD decisions AND SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES!
The infantilistic society we live in today is a key reason for the inconceivable lack of concern for consequences in our youth today: They have grown up in a culture where it's almost impossible to actually suffer consequences for bad decisions. So, we end up with kids who put cats into microwave ovens, or "swarm" lone adults in parks, or go "street drifting" regularly.
THEY are paying the price for the "nanny state" we have allowed to foment itself upon our once great nations.
Now the question is: How do we start to UNDO the damage wrought?Yes, this is a bit off-topic, but your attitude of "Yeah, so what?" is EXACTLY what I am referring to.
IF we want to, we CAN start to dismantle this smothering mothering of our governments. We do have to start small, though. Unless you know enough folks who know enough folks to utilize the "reset button".