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So you're going to let my intent argument stand?

We build the firewall around prosocial behavior. I think that if the names of all of the coke dealers selling their wares through TSR came out today I would not be upset either, because it's a scummy, exploitative industry. If you're breaking a social contract, my expectation of other people upholding their social contracts with you, in that area, are very slim.

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The whole purpose of a judicial system is that blanket vigilantism based on "social contracts" is ineffective and prone to high margins of error. I understand that you do not share this belief and instead want to mold people around allegedly "prosocial" behavior, even if it's a legal contract outside your jurisdiction as a natural person. We will have to disagree and cut the argument here.

You wouldn't care if people who are not at all involved are implied to be coke dealers because they had their identity stolen?

Public exposure of individuals' private information is irresponsible, period.

Vigilantism is against the social contract, upholding it implies you gave up that power to the institutions that have the responsibility to judge and prosecute.

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