It was none of your business!! —Not your business!!
This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2015.
Mind your business!!
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I guess saying it three times is the charm?
Not sure what OP is driving at here. Maybe someone is interfering or insinuating themselves in a situation where OP feels they shouldn’t. I could be wrong.
The question of course turns on the issue of what is, and what is not, “one’s business.” The concept of one’s business is elastic, varying in terms of the context in which it is employed. Ordinarily, for example, entering the house of one’s neighbor would be considered a violation of the injunction to mind one’s own business. However, if one’s neighbor experienced a catastrophic accident with his lawn-mower one could, quite rightly, enter his house in search of bandages or other appropriate medicaments. It’s all a matter of context.
Next.
Maybe op was annoyed at a third party getting involved in something that was clearly none of their business, happens to us all the time. So annoying. Mind where you stick your noses people. An empty bus is a happy bus.
Yours truly
Some people aren’t happy unless their noses are stuck in others *business.
The OBs exhortation to mind your own business implies a right to privacy. But is privacy really a right?
“In an important sense, privacy is a modern invention. Medieval people had no concept of privacy. They also had no actual privacy. Nobody was ever alone. No ordinary person had private space. Houses were tiny and crowded. Everyone was embedded in a face-to-face community. Privacy, as idea and reality, is the creation of a modern bourgeois society. Above all, it is a creation of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century it became even more of a reality. [p. 258]”
Guarding Life’s Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy Hardcover – November 8, 2007
by Lawrence Friedman, Stanford University
Asimov – the naked sun. that’s the world I want to live on. wait a minute, I already have that.
so that’s the new euphemism for bum sniffing is it? nose stuck in other people’s business?
and people wonder why I abhor social contact…
We could ask OB to elaborate but they would probably tell us to…. you guessed it!
IS PRIVACY REALLY A RIGHT?
“The concept of one’s business is elastic, varying in terms of the context in which it is employed.” (Montrealman 02/15, 9:02AM)
To ask whether privacy is “really” a right mistakenly pre-supposes that the concept of a right is absolute, existing independently of the context in which it is employed. Lawrence Friedman’s contrasting the modern concept of privacy with that of the mediaeval period is therefore misconceived where it is not simply platitudinous. The context here is not just situational but rather it is historical. It is a therefore matter of platitudinous obviousness that the concept of privacy has changed radically over the course of time. To suppose otherwise is to simply misconceive the concept itself.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
That is right none of our business, until you mentioned it. Now we have to TCB Come on spill the beans.
This crap gets posted and my bitch doesn’t? FFS
Did you post on Facebook “I’m so sad”, then when people asked “What’s wrong?” you answered “I don’t want to talk about it.”????
Are you 14?