Talk:Ponyville Confidential/@comment-4876777-20120401170259/@comment-53539-20120402114741

Actually Rarity was somewhat correct when she said "a little gossip is fine". Some levels of gossip tear down the illusions people put up for themselves. Up until that statement everything that was said was embarressing, but harmless. Sure everyone was hurt, but they would have gotten over it within a few weeks. All it would have done was taught everyone a little bit of humility and humbleness or to be a little bit more careful in future. The truth would have revealed itself with time as people realised things like RD isn't a softy or Twilight a snob.

Its likely a little gossip on Rarity wouldn't have caused Rarity to be offended n the level she was offend at. She would have had to swallow her pride and endure it after her remarks at everyone else's humilation. But Rarity's dairy was just a step too far.

People write things in dairies for their own pleasure, no one elses. This was an invasion of someone's privacy, further more Sweet belle had taken advantage of her situation of being Rarity's sister to get access to it.

After that, the CMC were untrustworthy as anything anyone said to them would have been used against them. It was clear that they were not above reprinting something as private as a dairy without premission. What else would they reprint without premission?