The key answer of exercise 6

For

• invasion of privacy
• can hurt people emotionally
• can drive celebrities to despair, even suicide
• everybody has a right to privacy
• unfair on celebrities to have such intrusion
• unfair on the families and friends of celebrities
• can lead to fights, accidents

Against

• freedom of the press
• celebrities want publicity when it suits them, so why should they have privacy when it doesn’t suit them?
• it’s part of the business – without the public’s need for gossip, there would be no celebrities
• they have fame and wealth, so why should they have privacy?
• if our privacy laws were really strict, the press wouldn’t be able to report on and expose the bad things people do