I feel like not publishing our private conversation (whether you’re a journalist or not) falls under common courtesy or normal behaviour rather than “charity”.
I feel like this falls into the fallacy of overgeneralization. “Normal” according to whom? Not journalists, apparently.
common courtesy is not the same as charity, and expecting it is not unreasonable.
It’s (almost by definition) not unreasonable to expect common courtesy, it’s just that people’s definitions of what common courtesy even is vary widely. Journalists evidently don’t think they’re denying you common courtesy when they behave the way most journalists behave.
Standing more than a 1 centimeter away from you when talking is not charity just because it’s technically legal—it’s a normal and polite thing to do, so when someone comes super close to my face when talking I have the right to be surprised and protest. Escalating publicity is like escalating intimacy in this example.
This is an interesting pushback, but I feel the same reply works here: failing to respect someone’s personal space is not inherently wrong, but it will be circumstantially wrong most of the time because it tends to do much more harm (i.e. annoy people) than good.
I feel like this falls into the fallacy of overgeneralization. “Normal” according to whom? Not journalists, apparently.
It’s (almost by definition) not unreasonable to expect common courtesy, it’s just that people’s definitions of what common courtesy even is vary widely. Journalists evidently don’t think they’re denying you common courtesy when they behave the way most journalists behave.
This is an interesting pushback, but I feel the same reply works here: failing to respect someone’s personal space is not inherently wrong, but it will be circumstantially wrong most of the time because it tends to do much more harm (i.e. annoy people) than good.