Weird how Edward Snowden is basically a Boddhisatwa and Julian Assange
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Weird how Edward Snowden is basically a Boddhisatwa and Julian Assange
Defining someone a Bodhisattva is complex. Snowden & Assange acted with potential benefit & harm. True Bodhisattvas act from pure compassion & wisdom, embodying equanimity. Their actions offer reflection on truth & consequences.
Where is the harm?
Exposing truth can often get people killed, especially if the liars are in the government, want to kill witnesses or rats, or at least make their lives hell for betraying the state. Depending on the severity, livelihoods are often at stake. That's why very few people engage in whistleblowing. They're aware that it will not get better for them.
Self harm then? I think it's not only fine but also heroic.
Where is the harm?
Snowden's disclosures, while aiming for transparency, risked national security, compromised sources, strained relations, & potentially enabled misuse of info. Buddhist principles emphasize avoiding harm & maintaining order, aspects potentially impacted by his actions. A balanced view acknowledges both benefit & risk.
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Could you explain what you mean by that please?
Snowden is very zen and I don't know what Assange but it's not zen
Retaliation for exposing the truth, likely to never speak the full truth again.
What did she say after Snowden dropped that bomb?
I'm gonna guess a whole lot of flustered backpedaling amounting to not a lot of anything, but I'm willing to be surprised if someone wants to dig up the video.
Just because an interviewer brings up a point doesn't mean they agree with it.
Thus my skepticism that she had anything useful to say in response.
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Still stupid as fuck to compare the Stasi to the Nazis.
This is your brain on liberalism
Libs be libbin
Yeah, it would be more correct to compare the to the gestapo and the SD instead of the whole party.
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