Everyone his (my!) age has an electronic trail that could render them unemployable if it emerged in the wrong light. I think Vance is bad news and the correspondence reflects badly on him but the emails shouldn’t have been shared. Nelson probably thinks he’s even worse than I do and thinks that the correspondence is so important that it is morally urgent that she share it. I’d prefer a genteel consensus where one ignored this kind of correspondence (… or photos!), but I don’t see how such a standard could be established.
I don't know if you can hold the Times and Sofia Nelson to the same ethical standard here. Newspapers are in the business of publishing documents people would prefer to remain private; that's the whole job. I agree that Nelson is in the wrong though!
Great references, from the Inferno to the Crucible. But this line is truly golden: “a defining feature of every bloody revolution from Savonarola’s Florence to Robespierre’s Paris to Mao’s China is that publicly informing on one’s former friends is, to put it mildly, highly incentivized.”
Everyone his (my!) age has an electronic trail that could render them unemployable if it emerged in the wrong light. I think Vance is bad news and the correspondence reflects badly on him but the emails shouldn’t have been shared. Nelson probably thinks he’s even worse than I do and thinks that the correspondence is so important that it is morally urgent that she share it. I’d prefer a genteel consensus where one ignored this kind of correspondence (… or photos!), but I don’t see how such a standard could be established.
I don't know if you can hold the Times and Sofia Nelson to the same ethical standard here. Newspapers are in the business of publishing documents people would prefer to remain private; that's the whole job. I agree that Nelson is in the wrong though!
Great references, from the Inferno to the Crucible. But this line is truly golden: “a defining feature of every bloody revolution from Savonarola’s Florence to Robespierre’s Paris to Mao’s China is that publicly informing on one’s former friends is, to put it mildly, highly incentivized.”