Re:Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels
by kergonath on Thursday November 27, 2025 @05:23AM
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> the occupants were engaged in some nefarious activities; therefore the curtains are left open to show that the occupants have nothing to hide and are engaged only in wholesome activities.
That sounds utterly dystopian. Whose business is it if we want to shag in the morning?
It’s also completely self-defeating. Nobody can prove that they never did anything that someone else would disapprove. There are solid reasons behind the "innocent until proven guilty" principle.
That sounds utterly dystopian
Welcome to 18th-century small-village politics.
Re:Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels
by TitaRusell on Thursday November 27, 2025 @09:09AM
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Priests used to visit houses if the wife had not been pregnant for a while.
Most of us do not realise how utterly NEW individuality and freedom is. Not so long ago we were all Taliban.
Re:Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels
by dotancohen on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:10PM
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Most of us (humans) still are. Only in Europe and the Americas is privacy or individually widely acknowledged.
The other side of the social contract obliges passers-by to not look inside.
The other strange thing that I found is that some apartments have little spy mirrors mounted on the exterior wall to allow the occupants to monitor what's going on in the street.