[hackerspaces] revspace and randomdata in the news re wikileaks ddos story

[Pavol Luptak]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:54:30AM -0800, Matt Joyce wrote:
>    Law is societal ethics.
> 
>    If you breach law, you breach ethics as defined not by you, but the
>    society you are a part of.

But unfortunately laws are often created/defined by the governments that just
try to exploit them to increase their power (e.g. "war against terrorism 
hype",) there is no society's interest at all, these laws definitely do not 
follow the society's ethics.

>    Breaking the law is unethical.

In case we have the perfect laws. But we don't. We can agree that everything 
that does not harm the other people can be classified like ethical - but it 
doesn't need to be legal, e.g. homosexual marriages, voluntary euthanasia, etc.

Pavol
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