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In response to J. Thomson's argument (see SA0312/I1790) that we need not seek what is common to all rights in right to privacy claims, it is noted that there is a common & unique feature to claims of privacy rights, & this feature is of great value in moral reasoning. Linked with privacy rights are the notions of intimacy & personhood. It is necessary to recognize that privacy is a social practice that involves behaviors of restraint & exists for good reasons. The point of this very complicated social ritual is that it provides a means by which an individual's moral title to his existence is conferred. As such, privacy is a social process recognizing the value of intimacy in regard to the existence of the individual, which is a precondition of personhood. To be a person, an individual must recognize not just his actual capacity to shape his destiny by his choices; he must also recognize that he has an exclusive moral right to shape his destiny. The right to privacy is the right to the existence of a social practice which makes it possible for one to think of this existence as his. It protects an individual's interest in becoming, being, & remaining a person. Modified Author's Summary.

THIS PAPER SETS OUT TO PROVE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING UNIQUE AND UNIQUELY VALUABLE PROTECTED BY THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY. IT DEFINES PRIVACY AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE THAT INVOLVES A COMPLEX OF BEHAVIORS. THE PAPER DEALS WITH THE TWOFOLD RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIVACY AND PERSONHOOD. THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY PROTECTS THE INDIVIDUAL'S INTEREST IN BECOMING, BEING, AND REMAINING A PERSON.

What has been the function of writing in my life? I have kept a diary throughout. I have turned to writing at every new threshold. What has it meant for me?I was twelve when my father was sent on an official mission to Stalin's Russia. We all went along. I carried with me a lovely notebook and started writing down my impressions on the big boat which took us to Batum on the Black Sea.