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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by the_af on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @10:54AM (#10085894)
I think you have the right approach, but infidelity is not "strongly immoral" in the sense that it entitles you to publicly humiliate people you aren't in any way related to. It's a private matter between two (or actually, more) people. Your spouse has the right to tell you what you did is "strongly immoral", but Joe Public doesn't. I have zero respect for someone from the public who thinks their moral outrage entitles them to shame someone else for who they have sex with.

"Strongly immoral" which belongs in the public sphere is more like human trafficking, murder, corruption in public office, etc.

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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by joaq on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:53AM (#10086375)
"It's a private matter between two (or actually, more) people."

Well, given that they're keeping their partner in the dark in the first place I don't see anything wrong with exposing the cheating scum.

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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by the_af on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:58AM (#10086413)
That's a private matter between the people directly involved. Maybe their partner would also be humiliated by the exposure of their private affairs (I know I would), in which case it makes things even worse.
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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by s73v3r on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @02:19PM (#10087396)
If you were only telling the person being cheated on, you might have a point. But since you're now telling the entire world that someone was cheated on, or maybe not even cheated on, you've kinda lost that.
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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by joaq on Thursday August 20, 2015 @10:46AM (#10092165)
Well the point is that the hackers picked a pretty good target. You're never going to convince me and millions of others that exposing cheaters is a bad thing, even to the entire Internet.
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