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Re:Trial of programmer accused in CIA leak ends in hung jury by harikb on Monday March 09, 2020 @10:08PM (#22532114)
I fail to see how planting evidence crosses a higher moral barrier than killing someone.

By the way, in both cases, the person who makes the decision genuinely believes, probably on wrong information, that the person they are entrapping is evil and they just lack the right evidence

So I don’t buy the argument that they would lose they sleep over what they did.

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Re:Trial of programmer accused in CIA leak ends in hung jury by meowface on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @03:21PM (#22538642)
Because there are different kinds of "evil". Killing an individual who they believe is responsible for the deaths of many people is different from framing a US citizen and going around the justice system by planting child pornography evidence, because they leaked secrets. These are not apples-to-apples situations.
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