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To a sociologist

connect with people and work through some pretty heavy emotional challenges

is a goodmine and insight into history.

Not sure why the sociologist’s desires should take precedence over the original posters’.

When pompeii was discovered we saw into homes 1,000 years ago. Without any regard to privancy for those covered in rock we broadcast their lives around the globe.

I don't think we give a lot of weight to what the original publishing intent was for anything published 100, 200 years ago, why would the change in the future?

Hence the old joke, "At what point does graverobbing become archaeology?"

When you can publish it?

Without publishing it rather becomes tomb raiding even after thousands of years

100 years ago is very different than thirty-years ago.

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