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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Seares: Privacy of nuns
By Pachico A. Seares
News Sense
WHEN Carmelite nuns opposed the planned P86-million flyover on Juan Luna Ave. in Mabolo, Cebu City, saying it will invade their privacy, public officials at a briefing sat up and listened. They later assured that all views will be considered.
I wonder how decision makers will look at privacy, alongside public interest, as competing issues.
They’ll consider, of course, that the Carmelites have used the site for ages with no intrusion, at least not from the air.
A flyover will have motorists passing and taking aerial look at the nuns.
Compromise.
A flyover must make the nuns feel a sense of invasion that scales their high wall.
Someone talked of a blocking device, the kind that shuts out other people’s view. But how many quick side glances passing motorists with eyes on the road can give?
The nuns can start getting used to the idea.
With a reason as compelling as the Asean summit, the flyover is a done deal. If good sense fled on the four-day holiday issue, how much more on this one?
After expressing a wish to take a walk around his garden everyday, John XXIII was surprised to learn that Vatican officials were erecting a barrier around the path so that passersby couldn’t see the Pope. He asked: “What’s the matter? Don’t I look respectable?”
The nuns can take comfort from that. They, or whatever motorists can see from up there, just have to look respectable.
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