WHY MINDING ONE'S OWN BUSINESS IS ALWAYS THE BEST APPROACH
Q: If I meet somebody and immediately cyber-stalk or snoop their digital footprint, and discover through a privacy leak that they have a blog, and I read that blog, and then when I see that person I go out of my own way to strike up adjacent conversations about the subject matter of the blog post without specifically mentioning that I found and read that person's blog, and I attempt to lecture them based on things that were said in the post that I may not even have the full context of, am I the asshole? A: Yes, absolutely, 100%. In that scenario, that person is completely in the wrong, and their behavior is textbook manipulative, creepy, and overbearing. If someone does that, they are violating multiple layers of basic human decency and conversational consent. Let's look at exactly why that behavior makes someone the absolute asshole: 1. It is Deeply Dishonest Healthy, normal human relationships are built on equal footing. If you dig up someone's private space through a lea...
