On 1/16/13 8:00 PM, Eric Charles wrote:
For me, at least, the ability to keep my age private was important for
regulating how others treated me. And I think I should have the right
to that. (Of course, you will probably point out, my birth record is
public... but now we are back to the two different meanings of public
vs. private. I'm not sure that it /should /be public, and at any rate
I wasn't worried that a fellow student would fly to San Diego and pull
my birth record.)
It should be public. But it is rude to press a person for personal
facts they don't volunteer. If someone uses a source, whether it is
convenient or inconvenient, public or something else, they they then
have no business making you feel uncomfortable about information they
acquired out-of-band. It's polite behavior. Nothing must change
because of the Information Age, etc.
Marcus
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