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Re:Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden by btilly on Monday June 10, 2013 @02:10AM (#5852678)
It also brought us Napoleon. And dictatorship. The guillotine. Many wars. More executions. The identification of the political right vs the political left. And on, and on, and on.

The world was certainly changed. Not always for the better.

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Re:Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden by whatusername on Monday June 10, 2013 @02:59AM (#5852833)
I'm sure there are some exceptions -- but most advances in the world can often be advances for both "good" and "evil". Or to put it another way - political or technological change doesn't overcome human nature
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Re:Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden by btilly on Monday June 10, 2013 @03:43AM (#5852934)
True. But the French Revolution went wrong at breakneck speed in a lot of ways. And France's history since has been rather tumultuous. (How many different forms of government have they officially had?)
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