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To: palmer
"I just think allowing the wire negates [privacy]"

Of course you do.

You also think that having a front door to anyone's house means that you can stand there and ring the doorbell all day, that you can walk side by side with anyone on the street where ever they go trying to sell your crap, that you have a "right" to continually try hacking anyone's computer all day because they're on-line, and you can stand peering into anyone's windows since they have the windows in their house and car.

There are plenty of laws to stop these invasions of privacy, too. These are the protections provided by the government because other idiots with your thought processes can't fit into what would otherwise be a freer society.

268 posted on 11/11/2003 7:31:54 PM PST by HighWheeler (A chainsaw don't know the difference between a laig and a lawg.)
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To: HighWheeler
Hey HighWheeler,

By his 'logic' having a home with door locks creates my zone of safety and privacy, meaning that whenever I step outside of my home, I'm waiving expectations of safety and privacy, and thus inviting creeps to accost me or assault me or (attempt to) take my wallet, etc.

Like I said, not much 'logic' there.

270 posted on 11/11/2003 7:34:52 PM PST by Petronski (Living life in a minor key.)
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To: HighWheeler
You also think that having a front door to anyone's house means that you can stand there and ring the doorbell all day, that you can walk side by side with anyone on the street where ever they go trying to sell your crap

That is harassment, I think local government can reasonably judge and enforce those cases. I will gladly cede to their authority

There are plenty of laws to stop these invasions of privacy, too. These are the protections provided by the government because other idiots with your thought processes can't fit into what would otherwise be a freer society.

You are implying we need laws to enforce politeness (or outlaw rudeness) which are the prerequisite for a free society. I don't think that will work and still have a free society. That's not even mentioning the problems of having a Federal bureaucracy enforcing the politeness laws.

274 posted on 11/11/2003 7:40:59 PM PST by palmer (They've reinserted my posting tube)
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