Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 01/16/2013 07:17 PM: > It should be public. But it is rude to press a person for personal > facts they don't volunteer. If someone uses a source, whether it is > convenient or inconvenient, public or something else, they they then > have no business making you feel uncomfortable about information they > acquired out-of-band. It's polite behavior. Nothing must change > because of the Information Age, etc.
The problem with this part of the discussion is that because of the "Information Age, etc." (aka population density ;-), the composition of polite behavior changes rapidly within an individual's lifetime. Add to that the mobility of individuals, and there are multiple, perhaps competing understandings of what polite behavior is. -- glen ============================================================ 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
