Critics have claimed that this understanding of privacy seems to involve something closer to a general right to liberty and, as a result, is too broad. Surely no one living in a social setting can expect to be let alone in any full sense. In a fundamentally social and cooperative activity like work, privacy in this meaning certainly would make little sense. But a closer look at the major legal cases Shows that courts have not claimed that individuals should not be let alone to make just any decision. Rather, courts have concluded that only certain very personal decisions, involving family, reproduction, sexuality, home life, and decisions regarding life-sustaining medical treatment are rightfully private. A reasonable interpretation of these judicial decisions suggests that certain decisions are so fundamental to establishing our own identity as an individual, that they ought to be protected as rightfully private.