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Because, like anyone in that situation, he's trying to find a home. Unfortunately, for him to receive justice he needs to be in the spotlight because politician
by andrewvc 13y ago
Because, like anyone in that situation, he's trying to find a home. Unfortunately, for him to receive justice he needs to be in the spotlight because politicians won't make the right choice unless confronted by their constituents.
If he chose silence, he'd be infinitely detained, and would receive no justice.
- diminoten 13y agoJustice for Snowden is a lifetime in jail, according to basically every government in the world. That's his fundamental problem, after all. If any of the countries he intends to flee to were to have someone leak the same kind of documents that Snowden leaked about the US, that person would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the laws of that country. So when you talk about justice, I don't think you want Snowden to receive justice, because that's a small cell for the rest of his life, or worse.
- marshray 13y agoYour reasoning presumes that countries of the world apply the same standard of 'justice' to foreign spies that they do to their own. Clearly this has proven to not be the true for China/HK and Russia.
- diminoten 13y agoI'm just pointing out the problem for any country of accepting Snowden. You're saying to your people, "It's okay to leak classified documents."
- Amadou 13y agoIf I am reading that right you are saying that justice is defined by laws - rather than the law being derived from justice.
- cheald 13y agoThat seems right to me. Where there is no law (be that legal, moral, spiritual, etc), there can be no injustice.
- icebraining 13y agodiminoten seems to be talking specifically about legislation, not law in a broader sense.
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