Former professional baseball player Doug Glanville makes a very important point about privacy.
It is coming to light that many players were evidently juiced, harming themselves and doing violence to the American pastime in their chemical quest for an edge.
The manner in which some in baseball are addressing this issue is equally distressing, however, as they are violating individuals' privacy rights while grabbing headlines.
Perjuring oneself while being asked questions under oath is unconscionable. But not giving a person a chance to address those questions for themselves, reneging on the terms of one's original agreement in the process, is likewise despicable.
A few links on privacy follow:
1) Warren and Brandeis' famous essay: "The Right to Privacy," Harvard Law Review, Vol. IV, No. 5, Dec. 15, 1890.
2) Privacy: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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