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2. Make an argument for Edward Snowden being a valued whistle blower versus being a traitor....

2. Make an argument for Edward Snowden being a valued whistle blower versus being a traitor. Consider the ethics triad in your discussion.

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  • Many people defended his action as ethical, arguing that he acted from the sense of public good
  • Many argued that he was legally culpable
  • Many others stated that even if he was legally culpable, he was not ethically culpable as their law itself was unjust and unconstitutional
  • snowden is a valued whistle blower
  • he doesn't appeared to have sougt money for his disclosure
  • He appears to have thought more about what he was taking than where he was taking it
  • He made breath taking disclosures eg:secret orders under which NASA was seizing phones and text records of every citizens in US, surveillance of world leaders
  • He succeeded in forcing multiple task force investigations and series of changes
  • Snowden is a traitor
  • He broke government rules
  • Embarrassed powerful leaders
  • Broke law in removing and disclosing classified information.
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