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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by mryan on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @06:35AM (#10084617)
If "some wacko" killed his family and himself as a result of your disclosure, would you feel any culpability at all? Of course, you didn't force them to join the site, but you did make the decision to disclose the information.

What if someone joined the site before they were married, but never contacted anyone? Their spouse receives your email, and confronts them. They are unable to convince their spouse that they never cheated, and the marriage comes to an end. Do you feel culpability in this case?

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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by Asbostos on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @08:20AM (#10084948)
If you spouse divorces you for irrational and unfounded reasons then anything else could trigger them too. You can't blame the messenger.
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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by mryan on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @09:14AM (#10085154)
Agreed - at the end of the day, the decision to divorce comes from within the marriage. I'm not casting blame here - just curious about whether any scenario would lead him to feel culpable about spreading leaked information. IMHO it's a philosophically interesting topic with lots of gray areas.
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