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> I dont think we will punish them. We simply cannot trust them.

Will you risk your company's integrity and reputation over hiring someone who had worked for NSA? An undergraduate? A father who had three kids to feed and just took the job to make a living?

Not trusting often turns out to be punishing. And in many cases we simply just discriminate them.

This is a serious issue, a real moral issue.

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as always, people have to make choices.

I cannot save others from the impact of the choices they make. and I would not want to.

You appear to be arguing that we should not judge people based on their actions - I am unsure where that leaves us?

You guys totally mistook the issue. The issue is that from the start we are discriminate everyone who is or was a NSA employee from the start.

So a driver who drunk drive and lost their legs should have a tag "I was a killer killing fifteen people five years ago and don't build an accessible platform for me"? No of course we don't do that.

You picked about the worst possible example. Drivers like that are the kinds of scumbags that make me question my opposition to capital punishment. You're not going to get the result you want trying to compare them to NSA employees.

You are mistaken. To some, NSA employees are just as bad as the scumbag drivers. To redeem themselves, some might argue they need to be Snowden and face the public, have their knees down and apologize. The two examples are the same if we just think killing democracy is the same as killing someone's life physical (because now we can't trust anyone and we live with doubts and skeptics).

I have no idea what this comment says.

You can take the crown of lies off of your head, but it will always leave a stain.

Should we try to help those people with disabilities? Yes. Should we go out of our way to help those who decided that they could drive under the influence, and kill 15 people because of their negligence? I think you will find that most people wouldn't even waste the spittle on that person's face.

You participated in deploying a creepy gigantic indiscriminate surveillance apparatus, and somehow you attempt to cast yourself as a poor victim. I don't think it is going to work. Maybe if your thoughts were toward denouncing the subversion of democracy and the violations of basic human rights as the consequences of such a creepy surveillance apparatus.

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