Yeah, it should be against the law for sure, but people need to get less worked up about when these pictures leak onto the internet.
Sure, it might be embarrassing, but "destroying people's lives"? Please.... only if you let it. Take a lesson from the way celebrities react to "nip slip" pictures. If you laugh it off and let it go, it has about the same effect on your life as a photo of you tripping over a rock or being drunk.
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It can prevent people from getting jobs, and subject them to humiliation to the point where they need to move or leave their schools. It's not like someone can just stop feeling humiliated when everyone they know is judging them.
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Like I said, only if you let it. And I agree that most people are far too scared of being embarrassed to laugh something like this off, which is why I agree that it should be against the law. On the other hand, there is an ideal way to deal with it which does not require moving, quitting jobs, or suicide. Even if you would feel humiliated, surely you must know somebody or, more likely, several somebodies in your real life circle of acquaintances who would laugh something like this off and keep on being them and doing whatever they want. Isn't that far more ideal than getting shamed out of town?
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Like I said, it's a lot harder than it sounds. Just "laughing off" having your most intimate information out for everyone to see? I don't think so. It's easy for you or I to present "laugh it off" as a solution, having never been through this. But for most people (including us, most likely) that is simply not reasonable.
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It can prevent people from getting jobs. Its the outlier, to be sure, but if he or she is identified, and people spam their social media ID'ing them, it can be a black mark against them. Employers are more and more looking to social media as a way to gauge a personality. You may bot be able to get fired for a post, but they can "find someone more qualified" should they see something they don't like.