I recently accidentally discovered that a musician friend of mine was a registered sex offender of little girls. I discovered this while using Google to find his phone number to arrange a gig.
Talk about feeling conflicted. --Doug On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Nicholas Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > Marcus, **** > > ** ** > > Have a look in the new New Yorker about the article on the new civil > commitment laws re sexual deviants. **** > > ** ** > > I can both not want these folks living down the block AND be horrified by > what We The People are doing to them. It is the luxury of liberalism to be > ambivalent. **** > > ** ** > > It’s all very VERY hard. **** > > ** ** > > Nick **** > > ** ** > > *From:* Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Marcus G. > Daniels > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 16, 2013 1:36 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Privacy vs Open Public Data**** > > ** ** > > On 1/15/13 10:54 PM, Steve Smith wrote:**** > > Who do we become when we do not respect the boundaries of others? Who are > we as a society when we allow or encourage others to transgress? I > understand the arguments for Law Enforcement and Intelligence and Security > *wanting* to spy on people freely... to restrict the use of cryptography, > etc. but they don't outweigh the risk of who we become when we do these > things. **** > > When a person visits the doctor, information shared is privileged. If > the doctor does not treat it as such, the doctor's career is put at risk. > It's a good incentive to keep quiet. > > So imagine a world in which brain scans become much more sophisticated, > and that certain dangerous mental health problems could be diagnosed with > high accuracy, and also treated. Because of fear of mass shootings, etc., > Americans make it law that scans be done on all, and that appropriate > treatments be employed. For the sake of argument, suppose it's all handled > methodically and in a secure fashion. > > Should we expect that the therapists and psychiatrists involved in this > hypothetical process would suffer themselves for not respecting boundaries > of individuals' psychological spaces? In current practice they would be > invited inside the boundary by the patient and so presumably that's > different. I think it is an adjustment health providers would make without > much trouble. It would be a professional analytical activity. > > Marcus**** > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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