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Unconcerned about your losing your right to privacy?

Unconcerned about your losing your right to privacy?

Snowden on privacy

 

Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to day.

~ Edward Snowden

Add this quote, which is controversially attributed to Cardinal_Richelieu

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

…and what do we have?

Listen and you might learn something new ~ Dalai Lama

Listen and you might learn something new ~ Dalai Lama

Nice point by the Dalai Lama. Not that speaking can or should be avoided entirely. Asking questions and sharing your views has tremendous value and is absolutely necessary for the “market of ideas” to work. Indeed, I think you can learn a lot in the process of trying to express yourself. But an emphasis on listening can hardly hurt.

Dialogue is the ideal. 

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