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Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville by swirepe on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:03PM (#25541024)
>This isn't a "good deed". It's a presumably rational person playing the situation.

Why not both? A deed can be both good and rational.

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Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville by joseph_grobbles on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:14PM (#25541076)
Reducing the harm of a purposeful, voluntary action -- maybe just to make it personally palatable to your own morality or mission -- doesn't seem to meet the threshold for a "good deed".

Less of a bad deed, sure. But given that they still did the very dangerous thing, no not a good deed.

The context I replied to implied that tracking a bomber by a warning they gave would be "punishing" a "good deed". That seems dubious.

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Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville by swirepe on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:26PM (#25541128)
>The context I replied to implied that tracking a bomber by a warning they gave would be "punishing" a "good deed". That seems dubious.

Oh yeah, sorry, I missed the context. It's a good deed, but not good enough to outweigh, you know, bombing. The recording should be traced like any other part of the bomb.

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