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by riversflow 955 days ago
This just seems incredibly idealistic to me.

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.