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Steven Lyle Jordan · 04-19-2011, 03:24 PM

I'm actually dismayed that so little consideration is being given to a free individual's rights, wishes and final requests.

Are creators considered mere robots, tools for the majority, built to spit out entertainment works on demand, and to be ignored as completely as the tiniest bug caught under a flyswatter when they make a request of their own? Is there no protection for an individual from the whims of others? Is there no reason to protect an individual's privacy, if it takes the form of a written word or created image that they created solely for themselves, and do not wish to show to anyone save their God? Is rifling the property of the dead as acceptable as the crone taking down Scrooge's bedcurtains now? Are we so petty as to believe that entertainment for the masses is really more important than a person's ultimate privacy?

If so, this has become a much sadder place in which to live.

04-19-2011, 03:24 PM	#29
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	I'm actually dismayed that so little consideration is being given to a free individual's rights, wishes and final requests. Are creators considered mere robots, tools for the majority, built to spit out entertainment works on demand, and to be ignored as completely as the tiniest bug caught under a flyswatter when they make a request of their own? Is there no protection for an individual from the whims of others? Is there no reason to protect an individual's privacy, if it takes the form of a written word or created image that they created solely for themselves, and do not wish to show to anyone save their God? Is rifling the property of the dead as acceptable as the crone taking down Scrooge's bedcurtains now? Are we so petty as to believe that entertainment for the masses is really more important than a person's ultimate privacy? If so, this has become a much sadder place in which to live. Last edited by Steven Lyle Jordan; 04-19-2011 at 03:26 PM.