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tyretoday at 5:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

It’s not, but legal is not the same as ethical.

For a long time, and probably still, it was legal for the US to torture enemy combatants. It was never ethical.


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rob74today at 5:14 PM

If you add to that the very broad limits of what the current administration considers "legal" (as in "pretty much anything we want to do"), I can understand feeling uneasy as a Google employee...

gigatreetoday at 5:37 PM

You’d need some shared ethical/moral framework to make that claim, which doesn’t really seem to exist anymore

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