Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon
by Aloha on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:37AM
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Snowden did the right thing - of this I have no doubt. But he also committed a crime - and depending on who you listen to it was either a grave one, or a slight justified one. Do I think his crime justifies 30 years in prison? no. I think the public good he did well offsets most of the harm - but I think he needs to go to jail for some amount of time, even if its only a day.
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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon
by whamlastxmas on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:56AM
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Saying something is illegal is not justification for it being amoral/wrong. There are countless obvious examples of this throughout history.
This is exact reason pardons exist. People do things that are illegal but not amoral when the system either doesn't account for it, the laws are not up to date to accurately reflect the consensus of a society, or the system is broken and acting outside the broken system was the best option.
Snowden doesn't deserve jail time due to the inefficiencies of our democracy. Inefficiencies that are largely due to our completely broken election system, as is obvious with the current presidential election.