On 6/14/06, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I blame neither Mr. Cohen nor the lawyers. It's the decision makers at the company who have decided this policy, which is a policy change from years ago. Nobody else at the company is to blame. That's how responsibility works.
No, it's not. If you do something that is morally reprehensible, it is morally reprehensible whether or not you are doing it because you were ordered to do it. For Mr. Cohen to tell us lies or inexcusably misinformed statements reflects negatively on him personally, because that is something that no one ought to do. Perhaps Mr. Cohen would be fired if he refused to act immorally. That doesn't mean that his actions are beyond criticism. I don't think that anybody, prior to the post I am making right now, has called Mr. Cohen or the lawyers into question for their individual morality. Up to this point, we have been criticizing what Mr. Cohen said, and we have been criticizing Hifn the company and any and all employees who would carry out actions on behalf of the company with which we disagree and with which we believe to constitute bad business and degradation of users' freedom. This has included but has at no point been limited to or particularly focused on Mr. Cohen. But now that you bring it up, yes, Mr. Cohen made the wrong decision when he chose to carry out the will of his company. And since he is the "Product Line Manager" (read his signature), he was probably involved in establishing just what the will of his company is. -Eliah
