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> "All of society’s privacy is more important than your single child, sorry." "which might include audio of you making love to your wife."

You and your wife bumping uglies just isn't that special, your embarassment about it is way out of proportion to the amount necessary. The fact that you would rather people die in house fires than a small chance that a stranger hears you breathing heavily and talking dirty should cause you a lot more concern than it seems to be causing you.



Just to be clear, you're saying that it's unreasonable to prefer everyone having private bedroom conversations over the elimination of spontaneous house fires?

That it's worth having a random human being able to listen to all said conversations?

To me at least it's incredibly reasonable to make that tradeoff. As a society we make tradeoffs all the time and people die as a result. Some of those tradeoffs are arguably unreasonable but this hypothetical seems very clear...


Just to be clear, you’re saying “I would not undergo temporary embarrassment to avert mass agonising death” and you think that’s incredibly reasonable?




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