I’m ideologically transparency extremist. This means I want absolute openness for everyone. Overwhelming majority of people on lemmy and other places disagree with me, which means that statistically I’m wrong.
I have some strong arguments for my side and most argumentation from your side is just common trolling or logical fallacies, which makes me think that I’m correct.
Even with that, the software I use is probably more private than solid portion of members of this community, becuase almost everything I use is open source.
I want to give your side another chance. I hope for polite and fruitful discussion.
There are many things that should be public: laws, standards, political donations.
Some things are beneficial when public, but are considered acceptable to be private: source code, recipes, political opinions, criminal history.
Some things can cause significant harm if not kept private: passwords, home address, government issued id, Jewish heritage during WW2.
“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.”
Thanks.
Hey others, look at this guy, you don’t need to troll
I think the disagreement or misunderstanding comes from the premise
If we had a different world where it was impossible to lie or hide anything, then a lot of our current problems would be gone. Meanwhile a lot of new problems might come up
In this world, if you can’t enforce that everyone stays completely open and honest, then it is in everyone’s best interest to keep certain pieces of information private