Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale...
by JohnFen on Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:06PM
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> You haven't justified the claim that "always being under surveillance" is categorically a bad thing.
I don't have to. It's sufficient for me to say that I strongly dislike it.
> Why share this belief if you can't defend it?
Why do you think this is something that needs defending?
Regardless, I think I have adequately defended it. It's an intrusion into my life that I don't consent to and I find highly objectionable. The reason I find it objectionable is exactly the same as the reason I object to someone following me around writing down everything I do, or peering into my windows at home.
> And what you sacrifice is a lot of convenience, and a wholesale rejection by the very society you rely heavily on to survive.
Neither of those things are true at all. I do not feel greatly inconvenienced, and I fully participate in society.
> It's not tenable to live in this society and wear a ski mask while shopping in a grocery store.
I agree. I don't do that. That said, if I'm aware that a store is engaging in facial recognition, I will choose to shop at a store that doesn't.
Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale...
by Zetice on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:56PM
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If it doesn't matter to you if you're understood, then you're just commenting for attention, and there's no point in reading anything else you write...
I don't have to. It's sufficient for me to say that I strongly dislike it.
> Why share this belief if you can't defend it?
Why do you think this is something that needs defending?
Regardless, I think I have adequately defended it. It's an intrusion into my life that I don't consent to and I find highly objectionable. The reason I find it objectionable is exactly the same as the reason I object to someone following me around writing down everything I do, or peering into my windows at home.
> And what you sacrifice is a lot of convenience, and a wholesale rejection by the very society you rely heavily on to survive.
Neither of those things are true at all. I do not feel greatly inconvenienced, and I fully participate in society.
> It's not tenable to live in this society and wear a ski mask while shopping in a grocery store.
I agree. I don't do that. That said, if I'm aware that a store is engaging in facial recognition, I will choose to shop at a store that doesn't.
That, too, is engaging in the society I live in.