To some degree, I think you're right. But I also think there's another argument to be made here:
Put as straightforwardly as I can, the two conditions in your original post seem to me negative:
a) Those who want to abuse others anonymously create negatives in society.
b) Those who want freedom from abuse are trying to escape negatives in society.
I think in addition to those, there is something that makes privacy a positive.
Here's an analogy: it's like defining mental health as "not being sick." A lot of psychology has historically treated it this way, but then I read people like Victor Frankl, or look at the Self-Actualisation piece of Maslow's Hierarchy and I see health can mean connectedness, joy and many things that don't fit on a purely negative level.
I don't know how I'd even begin to articulate the things I find positive about privacy, but I do think there's something. Perhaps I'd start with appealing to you as a writer. Isn't the ability to get lost in your thoughts and be creative without censoring the flow somehow connected to privacy?
Put as straightforwardly as I can, the two conditions in your original post seem to me negative:
a) Those who want to abuse others anonymously create negatives in society.
b) Those who want freedom from abuse are trying to escape negatives in society.
I think in addition to those, there is something that makes privacy a positive.
Here's an analogy: it's like defining mental health as "not being sick." A lot of psychology has historically treated it this way, but then I read people like Victor Frankl, or look at the Self-Actualisation piece of Maslow's Hierarchy and I see health can mean connectedness, joy and many things that don't fit on a purely negative level.
I don't know how I'd even begin to articulate the things I find positive about privacy, but I do think there's something. Perhaps I'd start with appealing to you as a writer. Isn't the ability to get lost in your thoughts and be creative without censoring the flow somehow connected to privacy?