Rance: Were your relations with your secretary normal? Prentice: Yes. Rance: Well, Prentice, your private life is your own affair. I find it shocking none the less.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A character dismisses the importance of private relations while still judging them morally.
- In plain terms
- Your private life is your own, but I still judge it.
- What can you take from it?
- Personal boundaries do not stop moral judgment.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When is it okay to judge someone's private life?
- Does privacy excuse behavior?
Another view
It ignores how privacy and morality often conflict.
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