Private Conversations
When person A expresses their innermost feelings to person B, person A is confiding in person B. What right does person B have over the information that person A just gave them. What if the information totally disagrees with person B’s philosophy? Does this person (B) have a right to take an action based on their own feelings? Doesn’t the confiding party (person A) have a right to privacy? What right does person B have to disseminate person A’s information to anybody else, no matter what the situation?
I think that when a person tells sombody how they feel on the inside, then the person who is listening to all of this has a duty to keep the conversation private. Under no circumstances should the information shared during the intimate talk be publicized without prior permission.
April 26th, 2003 at 6:50 am
Shouldn’t person B’s situation be taken in to consideration before making any judgements?
April 26th, 2003 at 9:07 am
As much as the problem presented can survive in a world of its own, I’m going to place the situation in context and say - There’s too much pain involved and it’s not worth it. It takes a little bit of guts to say “Screw all this, it’s not worth crying over”. I guarantee you that there’s no change of opinions of anybody based on this, and no hard feelings toward anybody. Well, at least as guys we reserve the right to say “yea.. whatever. it’s all good” for even the most complicated situations. (Yea I hate to make this sexist, but I’m telling you the truth. Uhh, does Dia visit your webpage by any chance?).
April 26th, 2003 at 11:59 am
my concern is a bit different. I am concerned about keeping the conversation private. you may agree that when private conversations are made public, there is more pain involved.
April 27th, 2003 at 7:23 pm
I repeat, i placed my answer In context……
Perhaps what we require is an elaborate Terms of Agreement and a good lawyer - when simple understanding between friends won’t do ;).
June 27th, 2003 at 8:58 pm
I think Person B should keep everything Person A said to themsleves. It is not right to go and tell information someone felt comfortable telling you. It’s an invasion of privacy and trust.