However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
People have the right to say what they want to.
It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.
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