[tracker1]

If a company is bringing in child labor in dangerous factories, and employing prostitutes to gratify the upper management, while you're being whipped daily, would that, maybe be an excuse?

I know it's a really out there example, but there are times where outright rebellion, even destructively, is morally acceptable. I don't know the specifics of this example, however.

[runamok]

That's a pretty big strawman. A better recourse would be to whistle blow in that scenario. Though clearly that carries a great deal of personal risk too.

Destroying a company damages all of that companies customers and employees as well. The difference between a surgical strike of a "bad guy" and carpet bombing a country.

[tracker1]

And if the government is complicit, and acting against its' own laws? That isn't such a strawman.

Also, blowing the whistle can mean many things... in this case, it was a temporary disruption, not much different than an organized strike would be.

[johansch]

Corrupt stuff in third world countries do not get entire chapters in CERT books - that's where things like these are expected to happen. Over and over again.

[tracker1]

The NSA spying incident that Snowden revealed wasn't a third world country. Then again, he didn't take down the NSA's routers or spying aparatus on the way out either.

[johansch]

> The NSA spying incident that Snowden revealed wasn't a third world country.

Yeah, isn't that what I said?