Up to the point that WikiLeaks engaged in obvious partisan manipulation, I had supported it. Your organization will be haunted by your choice to deliberately help elect a dangerous avatar of populist anti-intellectualism to the most powerful office in the world.
I think there should be an organization that does what WikiLeaks claims to do, and what I believed it once did. But at this point I'm seeing WikiLeaks as a destructive actor in the world. I've done a complete 180 because of your recent actions. As human beings, you should feel some responsibility to preserve our fledgling global civilization.
I mean just do some thought experiments about this decision to supposedly "publish what we have," and you see how morally bankrupt your position is. Do you help elect Putin, a murderer of journalists and enemy of the press, if you happened to receive information that his opposition is a closet homosexual? This shouldn't even be a scandal and yet in anything resembling today's Russia, you know that it would be, and your one size fits all policy of "PUBLISH" would make you an ally of bigotry and an enemy of progress. There are endless permutations of this kind of scenario, and at some point it must be obvious even to you that you are working against the greater interests of humanity.
The fact is that corporatism is not the only danger to humanity, as any reasonable reading of history should make obvious. There is no shortage of other dangers, like racism, fascism, anti-intellectualism, religious fundamentalism, tribalism etc and to be so fanatical in the fight against one of these dangers that you become an ally of the others is to be on balance an enemy of civilization.
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Up to the point that WikiLeaks engaged in obvious partisan manipulation, I had supported it. Your organization will be haunted by your choice to deliberately help elect a dangerous avatar of populist anti-intellectualism to the most powerful office in the world.
I think there should be an organization that does what WikiLeaks claims to do, and what I believed it once did. But at this point I'm seeing WikiLeaks as a destructive actor in the world. I've done a complete 180 because of your recent actions. As human beings, you should feel some responsibility to preserve our fledgling global civilization.
I mean just do some thought experiments about this decision to supposedly "publish what we have," and you see how morally bankrupt your position is. Do you help elect Putin, a murderer of journalists and enemy of the press, if you happened to receive information that his opposition is a closet homosexual? This shouldn't even be a scandal and yet in anything resembling today's Russia, you know that it would be, and your one size fits all policy of "PUBLISH" would make you an ally of bigotry and an enemy of progress. There are endless permutations of this kind of scenario, and at some point it must be obvious even to you that you are working against the greater interests of humanity.
The fact is that corporatism is not the only danger to humanity, as any reasonable reading of history should make obvious. There is no shortage of other dangers, like racism, fascism, anti-intellectualism, religious fundamentalism, tribalism etc and to be so fanatical in the fight against one of these dangers that you become an ally of the others is to be on balance an enemy of civilization.
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