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> [...] 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 arg
by 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.