correction accepted.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Can someone provide an argument why we owe any special responsibility to our subjects rather than our readers, except that of avoiding wanton damage to private individuals through recklessness or malice? If there is any uncertainty in the balance, there will be more than one reader, so the interests of the readers will always predominate.
While I agree with what you're saying, that point is fundamentally flawed. The harm to the subject is often far greater than the gain to an individual reader. There are sufficiently more readers that the net result is still positive, but were there only two readers, that wouldn't be the case.
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