Comment by dhume
15 years ago
Hiding some behavior is not an acknowledgment that the behavior is wrong, just that there may be someone out there who thinks it is.
15 years ago
Hiding some behavior is not an acknowledgment that the behavior is wrong, just that there may be someone out there who thinks it is.
What, have you never planned a surprise party? People need privacy not only for nefarious ends.
So to put that scenario in the same context as the original quotation, one just needs to imagine the surprise party being ruined because the secret was handed over to the authorities under the U.S. Patriot Act.
SWAT showing up can really ruin a party.
One imagines that the director of the NSA does not have many surprise parties thrown in his honor.