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Saying something is illegal is not justification for it being amoral/wrong. There are countless obvious examples of this throughout history. This is exact reas
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Saying something is illegal is not justification for it being amoral/wrong. There are countless obvious examples of this throughout history.
This is exact reason pardons exist. People do things that are illegal but not amoral when the system either doesn't account for it, the laws are not up to date to accurately reflect the consensus of a society, or the system is broken and acting outside the broken system was the best option.
Snowden doesn't deserve jail time due to the inefficiencies of our democracy. Inefficiencies that are largely due to our completely broken election system, as is obvious with the current presidential election.