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On 09/02/2020 01:21, Adrian Tymes wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 12:21 PM Ben Zaiboc via
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<div> On 08/02/2020 19:29, Brent Allsop wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">The world would be so much
better if everyone knows everything.</blockquote>
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Yep, the world would be so much better if the Saudi
government knew exactly who had exactly what opinions on
religion, if the Iranian people knew for sure who was
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<div>And if the Saudi and Iranian citizens knew who the
secret police were *and* how little threat different
religions and homosexuality actually posed.</div>
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<div>"Everything" does not merely include the bad parts.</div>
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Sure, that goes without saying, but the subject line is probably a
bit misleading. We're talking about total transparency, not
omniscience. Total transparency doesn't give you knowledge about how
little threat homosexuality, for instance, poses, it just gives you
knowledge about people's behaviour, which allows you to infer
whether they're gay or not. It doesn't change your prejudices (not
immediately, anyway. It might in the long run).<br>
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Including the 'good' parts doesn't change the fact that total
transparency would be a recipe for disaster. Human beings just
aren't capable of dealing with it. The example of homosexuality and
religious convictions about it is a perfect example, but far from
the only one. Yes, everyone would know exactly who had lynched the
peaceful gay couple living in No. 26, but that wouldn't do the dead
couple any good. Multiply that by millions, add in all the other
kinds of behaviour and world-views that various people see as
obnoxious, sinful etc., and worthy of violent 'reprisals', and what
kind of a world would it be?<br>
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"Everything" does not merely include the bad parts, no, but it's the
bad parts that would lead to the inevitable suffering and death, not
to mention plain old social problems, psychological problems, and
I-don't-know-what-else.<br>
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