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Re:California law enforcement misused state databases more t... by matthewaveryusa on Thursday January 30, 2025 @07:43PM (#42883716)
Your premise is that absent of Palantir there would be no tooling. Someone is going to do it and it might as well be Peter Thiel & co because they're already doing all the other data surveillance.
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Re:California law enforcement misused state databases more t... by nemomarx on Thursday January 30, 2025 @07:53PM (#42883766)
"Someone else will just do this thing anyway, so I might as well do it" is a fairly weak excuse. I doubt it would hold up as a defense of a crime.
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Re:California law enforcement misused state databases more t... by sangnoir on Thursday January 30, 2025 @07:51PM (#42883756)
You are going to die someday, right? How close do you have to be to deaths door for it to be morally okay for me to smother you with a pillow[1]? It was going to happen anyway, why would it matter that I did it?

1. Or carbon monoxide mask, if the distress of asphyxiation is throwing you off the from point I'm trying to make

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Re:California law enforcement misused state databases more t... by heavyset_go on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:25PM (#42884201)
You can justify anything after the fact with this reasoning.
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Re:California law enforcement misused state databases more t... by Analemma_ on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:12PM (#42884406)
"If I don't, someone else will" can be said about pretty much anything, it is not an ethical get-out-of-jail-free card.
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Re:California law enforcement misused state databases more t... by int_19h on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:39PM (#42884506)
No, my premise is that whoever is doing it bears full moral responsibility for it, unless they're literally forced into it.
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