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La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts) Sun Jun 16, 2013, 02:49 PM Jun 2013

Snowden, not that i really care about whether or not he is a hero [View all]

but i am pretty sure he is a better person than i am. I would never give up my well paying job to leak information about the most powerful nation on earth making myself a target and having to move away from my friends and family.

Yup, I and most other people are that selfish and self-centered. He apparently is not.

This doesn't make him perfect, nor does it make me put up a poster of him and start my daily worship of him but it does make me think that at least he loves his country more than I do.

That's the extent to which I care about who Snowden is or isn't.

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Snowden, not that i really care about whether or not he is a hero [View all] La Lioness Priyanka Jun 2013 OP

I wouldn't automatically concede the "better than me" point BeyondGeography Jun 2013 #1

i am saying that i and most people i know would not make this tradeoff that he has made. nt La Lioness Priyanka Jun 2013 #2

plus we don't know if he was paid for this. Whisp Jun 2013 #3

That's slander. You have nothing on this. dkf Jun 2013 #5

don't be ridiculous. Whisp Jun 2013 #7

here, here, lioness, great point and post nt markiv Jun 2013 #4

That's a reasonable assumption if the story is taken at face value. SecularMotion Jun 2013 #6

i would rather take things at face value than create extreme conjecture La Lioness Priyanka Jun 2013 #8

I don't disagree SecularMotion Jun 2013 #9

I'm not the only one skeptical about Snowden SecularMotion Jun 2013 #10

nice post. I dont when and what causes each of us to do the right thing, if ever xiamiam Jun 2013 #11

My opinion of him is that he has committed a criminal offense and should stand trial. Tx4obama Jun 2013 #12

not even gandhi and nelson mandela? La Lioness Priyanka Jun 2013 #16

Were you born in this country? Major Hogwash Jun 2013 #13

Bravo! (or Brava!) - Your honest self-assessment is refreshing and matches HardTimes99 Jun 2013 #14

DURec and a Thank You. bvar22 Jun 2013 #15

makes sense G_j Jun 2013 #17

exactly. i would not throw my life down the drain like this La Lioness Priyanka Jun 2013 #18

du rec. xchrom Jun 2013 #19