[paulryanrogers]

Snowden is likely facing much more scrutiny in Russia, a totalitarian regime he became stranded in.

He gave up a very comfortable life once and landed in a far much less comfortable one. Blaming him for not risking his life again, and now likely also his SO and child(ren), comes across as naive or at least reductive.

[car_analogy]

> Blaming him [..] comes across as naive

Calling this naive is itself naive. It's not naive - it's malicious. The author dislikes what Snowden has done in the US, so he is trying to demonize him by holding him to some saintly standard of self-sacrifice that almost no-one could live up to.

[paulryanrogers]

I was trying to assume the most generous interpretation. A cynical take is that this person is a paid government shill.

[sam_lowry_]

> self-sacrifice that almost no-one could live up to

Like Navalny?

[car_analogy]

"almost"

If the gist of the article was "Snowden is pretty brave, but there exist people even more courageous and self-sacrificing", I wouldn't have much issue with it.