Where's all the blackmail?
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It is interesting how little blackmail I see, that I know is blackmail. A lot of people probably do some things they would be embarrassed by if they were made public at some degree of detail and explicitness, and it probably isn’t that hard to get evidence of these, and quite a few people seem to be amoral . Also, in order to properly embarrass someone, I imagine you would make your information relatively public, so that for instance I—Katja—should hear about some fraction of cases. Yet I very rarely receive information I know to be public for the purpose of embarrassing someone. I’m not sure
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