>It blows me away when I hear people say that information like that should be PRIVATE.
>How can it possibly hurt society to have that knowledge in the public domain?

I guess it blows me away when someone assumes to decide (or project) what should be private - using needs of society as the benchmark/baseline.

I'll never pass up a chance to use a good Ayn Rand quote: "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men".

JR mentioned psychiatric context, which is a big one.