Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25541953-20150114174633/@comment-8639262-20150713190632

the people calling him a "traitor" are saying that he betrayed his country, and the ones who are being the loudest when they call him that justify it based on all the "damage" that his leak caused. his defense is that he's not a traitor, he put a spotlight on rich powerful fuckwads - the real traitors - doing shit they shouldn't be doing. who's the arsonist, the one who lit the match, or the one who yelled "fire". in Snowden's case, he's the one that yelled "fire", but still got called an arsonist, and he knew the whole time it would happen, and he knew it would fuck up his life, but he did it anyway because he thought it was the right thing to do. dig out whatever dictionary definitions you want, the larger issue is that pedantically inisiting on the validity of calling him a traitor at all gives some credence to the wrong fucking side.