[Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

[Tim May]

On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 03:48  PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
>
>> Adam
>>
>> PS: Bob Blakely once defined privacy as the right to lie and get away
>> with it, which fits into some of what many people mean by privacy.
>
> Another possible definition is the right to tell the truth and get away
> with it.
>
> But both definitions are rather about free speech than about privacy, 
> but
> then we'd get to a fight over definitions which is in this context 
> better
> to leave on the shoulders of people making encyclopedias.
>

Maybe I have a minor corollary to Somebody's Law: "All debates about 
privacy eventually degenerate into foolish and off-target debates about 
the meaning of truth."

It never makes sense to argue about a "right to lie" or a "right to 
tell the truth." One man's lie is another man's truth. And even 
_asking_ for a true response is usually an overstepping, as it presumes 
the asker knows what is true and what is not. Pilate said it all 2000 
years ago.

--Tim May