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| Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, January 15 2013 @ 08:22 PM EST |
I will say this. I've know some prosecutors in my
time, and they were all perfectly lovely. I'm not
kidding at all or exaggerating. And they all were
the type of person that would go out of their way
for someone in trouble. They are oriented toward
helping victims, not those causing difficulties.
So my guess is he's a perfectly nice guy normally,
who got caught up in something that he didn't even
understand.
Let's not be like him in that.
It's awful, for sure, but the truth is, most people
doing awful things think they are doing a favor for
God, so to speak. They actually mean well, but it's
how they look at who is deserving of humane treatment
that matters.
I mean, if you see a group of people as lesser humans
than you and your type, you may treat them worse than
you would your friends. And that can ruin lives,
including your own.
People really don't understand computers or tech, and
they don't understand other cultures. Every culture
I've ever been exposed to thought its ways were the
absolute best. Every single one, including my own.
And that inability to see others as just like you is
what makes it so hard to treat others according to
the way you'd like to be treated if you were to
switch places. Instead, people see others as "Others"
and it is so toxic. Once they saw him not as a
genius American treasure but as an evil hacker, he
wasn't fully human any more.
I don't want Groklaw to do the same thing in reverse.
Let's be aware that he probably feels absolutely terrible
right now. Because I would. He didn't cover over a
mistake on Aaron's part, but I don't wish to be
so inhumane back regarding his own. How would that
make anything better?
That's what I suspect happened, not that anybody was
evil in this picture on purpose. There are evil people
in the world, for sure, but I've seen no evidence yet
that there were any in this picture, just human frailty
on display. And how sad it is.
That's why changing the CFAA is the only suggestion I
offer. Then, it won't be up to imperfect humans, because
the law itself should be written so that it works, even
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