RE: FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images
January 22, 2016 at 8:17 am
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2016 at 8:21 am by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(January 22, 2016 at 2:41 am)Divinity Wrote:(January 22, 2016 at 2:25 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: And on the other hand, if you wish to justify the abrogation of principles on the grounds that 137 creeps were caught, that's great.
Me, I think the government should abide by the laws they enforce. What do you have to say about that?
So you're in general against undercover police?
I mean there's all sorts of justifications for breaking the law. You can commit any number of crimes to prevent a greater harm. And you just have to (within reason) believe that you're preventing a greater harm by doing it. If the FBI thought that they were preventing a greater harm by leaving the website up rather than taking it down, then they were-- in my opinion-- justified. I think "Police should always obey the law!" is a bit black and white. That's my two cents.
Ah, the Machiavellian philosophy - it worked so well for Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin! Probably nobody's gone further with it than Putin.
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