Re:Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden
by ikeboy on Friday February 05, 2016 @09:09PM
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You make three points in your reply. All seem to be flawed.
1. "Different people think differently, therefore your thoughts are wrong" is invalid. People thinking something is morally permissible does not make it so.
2. Delegating responsibilities to others makes you responsible if they mess up. When you're doing something as sensitive as Snowden did, you better own your mistakes, and don't trust people who have agendas.
This wasn't an isolated incident.
3. I'm not sure if his actions are better overall. There's little tangible utility in having less surveillance. It's mostly in things like "you're slightly less likely to turn into a suppressive regime". It's not clear that outweighs the negative aspects.
But even if it was overall better, that doesn't make him good under standard ethics.
Or would you support a firefighter that saved ten lives, then went out and murdered five people? If not, you must not be using a total good metric.
1. "Different people think differently, therefore your thoughts are wrong" is invalid. People thinking something is morally permissible does not make it so.
2. Delegating responsibilities to others makes you responsible if they mess up. When you're doing something as sensitive as Snowden did, you better own your mistakes, and don't trust people who have agendas.
This wasn't an isolated incident.
3. I'm not sure if his actions are better overall. There's little tangible utility in having less surveillance. It's mostly in things like "you're slightly less likely to turn into a suppressive regime". It's not clear that outweighs the negative aspects.
But even if it was overall better, that doesn't make him good under standard ethics.
Or would you support a firefighter that saved ten lives, then went out and murdered five people? If not, you must not be using a total good metric.