Folly doesn’t take away one’s right to privacy

Once again, a private matter concerning two adults found its way into the public arena this week. This time around, it took the form of a leaked conversation between two intimate people.
And just like the times when local nude pictures or video clips go viral, there was some incomprehensible excitement on social media; almost everybody was drooling to read the conversation and share their opinion about the chat.
As such scandals unfold; there is that temptation to judge the subjects as morally decomposed, although unfortunately, that decree is mostly heaped on those whose escapades have been put in the spotlight when almost every one of us has skeletons hidden in our closets, some of which are scarier than the exposed conversations and pictures.
But almost every time something of this nature leaks, there is a disgruntled individual somewhere who has decided to unleash their anger on the concerned individuals by embarrassing them publicly.
And by taking part in the circulation of the material, as well as feeding our eyes on the pictures and the conversations, little do we know we are playing at the hands of this selfish individual who out of jealousy, anger, bitterness or revenge embarks on a mission to abuse, mortify and degrade other people, who I am sure are struggling to cope with this humiliation.
The subjects in the conversations and pictures may be wrong, depending on the values that one holds, but no matter how compromised their poses or conversations, there cannot be a validation for violating someone’s privacy in this cruel manner.
I share the view that there is everything wrong with a woman going out with a married man, just like it is unreservedly wrong for a married man to indulge in extra-marital affairs.
But be that as it may, there is completely nothing that justifies the action of stealing conversations between such people and publicising them without their consent.
People do wrong things all the time; they indulge in immoral behaviour that is deemed unacceptable by society, but they still have their right to privacy and no one has the power to take that right away by way of exposing their senselessness.
That is why I find myself despising those that leak such information to the public. Who gives them the power or right to take advantage of other people in this manner? n