Where the Line is Drawn.

      Where do we find the border between an interest in safety and a violation of privacy.  Lately, I've felt like people just run into my situations and conduct searches on hunches, and I personally feel that this is unacceptable.  People are welcome to search if they have evidence besides an opinion supporting a theory (of which there has never been in my case).  Meanwhile, people suffer the indignity of the suddle insults incorporated into these investigations.  The way these searches are conducted seems exessive and more to make a point about power then to actually uncover anything about a specific topic.

      This last paragraph may sound a bit suspicous, but if you think about it, that's really where all this starts.  It all comes back to people thinking they know better than you about what should and shouldn't be allowed and what is ethical.  The worst thing is when said people try to be sneaky about it and pretend to just be acting friendly.  Of course, anyone smart enough not to have been doing anything compromising knows that this is all an act, and either lets them carry on because they have nothing to hide, or protests in the interest of what is right no matter what the potential social consequences.

     People occasionally seek approval, so it can seem good to know after searches etc. that we are not doing anything wrong, however, a feeling of praise cannot substitute for human dignity, and those who feel it necessary to glorify good results of searches etc. know this most of all.  This whole scenario actually reminds me of the song, "Loves Me Like A Rock" where Paul Simon says, "Now who do, who do you think you're foolin'?" because the people who do nothing wrong are seldom fooled by those trying to violate their privacy.

Yours Always,

Sofia-Ma. Passik.