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Re:Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails by grecy on Saturday November 16, 2013 @01:44AM (#6743961)
Profiting from the deaths of others is morally wrong, and it should be illegal. Judging by the number of up votes my parent comment has, there are lots of people that agree.

>I'm pretty sure there's no law against any of that.

You're right, there is no law against it, yet.

There also didn't used to be laws against a ton of morally wrong things, but at some point, enough people thought it was wrong and a law was made.

We should be looking to make the world a better place, not saying "there's no law against that, they can do it". The status quo needs improvement.

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Re:Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails by petercooper on Saturday November 16, 2013 @04:32AM (#6744272)
Profiting from the deaths of others is morally wrong, and it should be illegal.

The media makes a lot of money from bad news, especially death. Perhaps only the state should run news organizations?

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Re:Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails by dandelany on Saturday November 16, 2013 @02:05AM (#6744015)
Profiting from the deaths of others? They're a news organization. I don't understand what you're accusing them of that CNN isn't also guilty of, save some tasteless emails with bad jokes in them.
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