ON HONESTY
In our third podcast (coming soon to your ears), Chuck and I and Christian briefly discuss, in a very "meta" fashion, if a certain topic should be discussed while recording. Essentially, the discussion boils down to what topics are off-limits, or if any topics should be off-limits.
I gave this a lot of thought after the podcast, and boiled it down to a few things.
1) I don't want to bring up things that involve other people. For example, my sister told the family in January that she was pregnant, but asked us not to tell anyone until she did. (Hey, congratulations! This was my "Secret" blog post from a few weeks ago.) So I don't think it would be right to talk about someone else's life like that in a public forum like a podcast or a blog.
2) I think there are a lot of things in my life that I may not exactly be ASHAMED of, but that certainly aren't topics my trig teacher from high school needs to know about - not that Mr. Zajicek would search it out, but there are parts of one's life that don't need to be general knowledge, right?
3) I want to lead a life laid bare - a life where I have no secrets. I really do. The struggle is that my life isn't just my own. What I've done reflects on the people around me - family and friends. And to tell things that I'm not proud of reflects poorly on THEM, which seems unfair.
4) I don't want to give Chuck too much information for the next game of "Dirty Facts."
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Note to Brad, the software I use on my G1 to receive updates on blogs updated itself this weekend and something caused it to stop receiving blogger updates.
It will be fixed soon, but that's why I didn't see any of your recent posts.
I think your views on this are for the most part normal, and therefore understandable. Yes, when something is understandable ONLY because it's normal, that sucks, but this is not the case here.
There are two types of people. The first type of person can live life, simply being proud of what he/she has done as a whole, without fostering any real regrets. With this type, the people are basically proud of all the good things they've done, and they're okay with any bad things they might have done (in my example, I thought pooping in public and getting arrested - a "bad" thing - was not a big deal, I don't see any actual negative consequences as it was expunged from my record - in an unfortunate other example, Tom thinks it's okay to steal sandwiches from passed-out homeless people). That stuff is all for a personal moral barometer to judge.
Then there is the second type of people - they're uncomfortable with being completely "out there", they think privacy is an understandable thing to want (regardless of what that privacy protects), and they think that they should be entitled to control who and who doesn't know about their actions.
99.999% of those people are people who do bad things that even they consider to be outside their moral compass, do things they want to keep secret because they would get in some sort of trouble if they weren't kept so, and are generally bad, inconsiderate, ashamed people.
That is 99.999% of the second type of people.
And then, of course, there's Brad...
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