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alanyoung 's review for:
Permanent Record
by Edward Snowden
To me there were several timeless themes running through this account of one man's struggle.
- The underlying reality of human sinfulness which means that any innovation can be used for good and evil.
- The never-to-be-resolved tension between the rights of the individual and the needs of society.
- The inevitability that moral understanding develops after technological advances.
- The risk that government powers claimed and granted in times of crisis may not be repealed once the crisis is past.
- The agonising personal moral dilemma and the potential personal cost of speaking out in any age and about any abuse.
Hence his experience is, in one sense, not new (Many men and women through history have been called down such a path.) but it did require his own personal courage with significant wisdom and great loneliness and in this he was not found lacking.
I very much doubt that I would have had anything like the courage, conviction and fortitude, especially when it came to risking precious relationships.
- The underlying reality of human sinfulness which means that any innovation can be used for good and evil.
- The never-to-be-resolved tension between the rights of the individual and the needs of society.
- The inevitability that moral understanding develops after technological advances.
- The risk that government powers claimed and granted in times of crisis may not be repealed once the crisis is past.
- The agonising personal moral dilemma and the potential personal cost of speaking out in any age and about any abuse.
Hence his experience is, in one sense, not new (Many men and women through history have been called down such a path.) but it did require his own personal courage with significant wisdom and great loneliness and in this he was not found lacking.
I very much doubt that I would have had anything like the courage, conviction and fortitude, especially when it came to risking precious relationships.