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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by jancsika on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:08PM (#24860346)
> Both put lives at risk for what has apparently achieved zero gain.

So, future impact affects your assessment of the righteousness of an act of conscience? How does that work?

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by DubiousPusher on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:44PM (#24860825)
Maybe that looks like a gross "argument from final consequences"...

...but if we could get this police state going and everyone would shut up about it we'd all be 100% safe right?

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by jancsika on Thursday October 22, 2020 @06:42PM (#24864055)
Hee hee, that's like when I tried changing a makefile to speed things up and it compiled the library in question in zero seconds.
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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by Simulacra on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:55PM (#24864649)
I can't tell the future, can you?
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