I've never, never understood the mindset of people who, when a whistle-blower reveals an Authority figure to be doing something illegal, immoral, or outrageous, want to attack the whistle-blower for bringing the Authority into ill repute. (It's happening with the Wikileaks revelations about Iraq and Afghanistan too, now.) I'm sure I'd be told I was the shallow or naive one for thinking the better way to not be attacked for doing evil is to not do evil, rather than to try to libel and blackmail those who reveal evil to the world.
The Wikileaks kerfuffle was what made me think this might be a good time for this quote.
"I'm sure I'd be told I was the shallow or naive one for thinking the better way to not be attacked for doing evil is to not do evil, rather than to try to libel and blackmail those who reveal evil to the world."
Oh, folks can make up stuff to accuse you of even if your nose is clean, but being clean is a sure way to make sure they have a hell of a lot less ammo! So ultimately, I'm with you on this.
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I've never, never understood the mindset of people who, when a whistle-blower reveals an Authority figure to be doing something illegal, immoral, or outrageous, want to attack the whistle-blower for bringing the Authority into ill repute. (It's happening with the Wikileaks revelations about Iraq and Afghanistan too, now.) I'm sure I'd be told I was the shallow or naive one for thinking the better way to not be attacked for doing evil is to not do evil, rather than to try to libel and blackmail those who reveal evil to the world.
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"I'm sure I'd be told I was the shallow or naive one for thinking the better way to not be attacked for doing evil is to not do evil, rather than to try to libel and blackmail those who reveal evil to the world."
Oh, folks can make up stuff to accuse you of even if your nose is clean, but being clean is a sure way to make sure they have a hell of a lot less ammo! So ultimately, I'm with you on this.