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Ken Fortenberry · April 25th, 2006, 05:31 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
We'll have to agree to disagree, in my world morality and
responsibility are always material and in my opinion leaking
the existence of torture prisons is more honorable and patriotic
than keeping them a secret because of an oath.

Hmm...OK. Now reverse it. Suppose the officer in question discovers
that a foreign national, in the US, has a bomb and is planning to blow
up a school, so they decide that honor, morality, and patriotism suggest
that they kill this person immediately.

Huh ? Leaking information about secret torture prisons is
comparable to vigilante murder ? How so ?

In short, you are making the biggest mistake one can make with this type
of thing. You are attempting to substitute _your_ judgment in place of
the law for guidance as to what one should do.

Exactly. Sometimes my judgment would lead me to do the honorable,
moral and responsible thing as opposed to what is strictly legal.
So long as I'm willing to pay the legal penalty for my actions I
will, and do, claim the moral high ground. I know that drives some
of the military types completely bonkers but that's just a bonus,
not really intentional. ;-)

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Ken Fortenberry