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by schoen
949 days ago
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Huh, I have a radically different intuition from you. :-) I think "personal ethics" applies to everything and everyone in the world. The people who do things are moral agents. > On what grounds does Petrobras have any right to privacy from the USG? Among other things, their confidentiality is protected by Brazilian law. If hackers break that law, Petrobras should be entitled to a remedy against them, just like Americans should be entitled to a remedy against Russian hackers, whether they intend to steal money or private information. As far as I know, all governments harbor criminals in this sense, but I think they should be incentivized to do so much less, including by pointing out that the espionage is a crime and not glamorizing it (or being upset with governments for not doing it!). |
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Brazilian law isn't US law, if Brazil wants to it can try and arrest spies I guess. That's all there is to it.
> I think "personal ethics" applies to everything and everyone in the world.
I think that spies have the moral agency to gather and report information in order to better promote the welfare of their countrymen.
> I think they should be incentivized to do so much less
How? That's an impossible task in my book, and the main reason I think that spies are ethically just is because it's the nature of the beast. If you figure out a good way to do this, might I suggest focusing your efforts on de-militarization instead of de-espionage? The people with bombs and tanks are the one's who do the most damage.