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I agree with your disagreement. For context, here are those two reasons, with which Adams begins his essay. It's only a click away, but I think it deserves to be dragged into the light:
That pretty much condemns the rest of the article. If he can't think of protecting oneself from other people's criminal activities, protecting oneself from other people's judgements, protecting one's creative activities from dissipation, protecting one's investigations from being scooped, protecting business secrets, and the basic feeling of GODDAMMIT THIS IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, then what planet is he oh forget it. He's writing this tosh just to get responses like that.
Scott Adams is a humorist, not a philosopher. Dilbert was worth reading. Since mining out that seam it's been a downhill journey into clickbait. He even admits to the game at the end:
I think most of these (all with the exception of "protecting one's investigations from being scooped" and possibly "protecting business secrets" or "THIS IS NONE OF... (read more)