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>Homosexuality is illegal in certain countries (like Saudi Arabia) and this hack might expose people to harm in these countries. To me this is the same logic a
by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
>Homosexuality is illegal in certain countries (like Saudi Arabia) and this hack might expose people to harm in these countries.
To me this is the same logic as saying that Manning/Snowden brought people to harm. Now if you already agree with that, no problem, but I wonder about people who follow this line of reasoning for this release but not for the Manning/Snowden releases.
- jnky 11y ago> [...] but I wonder about people who follow this line of reasoning for this release but not for the Manning/Snowden releases. I think it would be easy to argue that the leaks of Manning and Snowden are justified because they exposed illegal and reprehensible activity from the government; an entity that should be held to the highest moral standard. Users of this site generally did nothing illegal and they wronged at most one other person each.
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoIf leaks can be justified, then it becomes a moral question of what justifies it. For some, adultery is enough to justify a leak, for others it is not (some of which do think the government wronging many people is justified). The core question is one of how bad does a leaked behavior need to be for a leak to be morally justified. As far as it not being illegal, any moral system that determines morality based on legality is a system I find fault in.