> I'm only interested in it as a technical debate, and not concerned enough to protect my privacy. I don't know why - I should have been.

Is there is really such thing as "my"? Take health as an example: I may be fairly careless about my health by assuming that it is *my* health and I can do whatever I want with it because it affects only me and nobody else.

But when I am ill I need more resources to recover my health. They also need to be of higher quality because when I am ill my body needs special care. All these resources don't fall from the sky - they come from other people. So basically I am exploiting the energy other have put in it because I have been careless. Additionally while I am ill I loose my capability to take care of others efficiently too and they may be suffering not due to irresponsibility (like me) but due to some actual unfortunate. So by being irresponsible to myself I am actually irresponsible to others. I become a useless parasite. That's why it is my ultimate responsibility to be in good health and condition, and that is not selfishness - on the contrary.

Same with privacy. If I say (like it's popular) "I have nothing to hide" am actually saying "I don't care about you either. Anything you send to me can end up in the wrong hands."

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