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The agency's purpose is espionage. Espionage, last I checked, was illegal everywhere. Yet every country has spies. Being just or unethical doesn't factor into i
by Aloisius 13y ago
The agency's purpose is espionage. Espionage, last I checked, was illegal everywhere. Yet every country has spies. Being just or unethical doesn't factor into it.
We know spying is unfair, but it is also something people have been doing since the dawn of civilization in order to get a leg up on the competition.
- CamperBob2 13y agoTechnically, the 'S' stands for 'Security,' not 'Spying.'
- mpyne 13y agoYou don't really think that an entire agency's remit can be specifically summed up within three generic words, do you? Hell, the Navy used to run their personnel management out of the "Bureau of Navigation".
- jlgreco 13y agoWhat the hell are you talking about, of course ethics factors into it! We, as a society, tolerate espionage so long as it is a necessary evil. One of the terms in the assessment of "necessary evil" is the ethics of what they are doing, the other term is how necessary it is. If your evil:necessary ratio goes to high then it program stops being something that any reasonable person can support. As an extreme example to demonstrate the point, if the CIA were installing cameras in the showers of randomly chosen UK citizens, that would be wildly unethical and have next to no benefit, thus making it wildly unacceptable. You can't just dismiss ethical criticism of a spy agency by saying "well they operate illegally anyway". Excluding the ethical term would be giving them a license to do anything they please.
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