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Wiseone said:

I just don't make assumptions, and I don't use those assumptions to fill gaps not supported by facts in my political narrative.

Also using the word intent implies their motivation for doing this was to endanger people, its possible their intent was something else and they just saw that as acceptable side affect, or they just rationalized that away because Yes I do agree there's no way they could have not seen this as a consequence for what they did. But again, just seeing as a consequence of what they did doesn't mean that it was their intent.

For example when we nuked Japan, we killed a lot of a civilians and everyone knew we would in the process, but that wasn't our intent at all it was something we had accepted as a consequence to achieve something else. That's a bit of a weird example but it works.

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Right...so...the blogger just posted it to prove a point. If journalists get hurt...well...that's just an unfortunate coincidence. No intent.

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Juiposa said:

Responding to childish bull by partaking in childish bull. Instead of being the better person, right?

And its not like the gun permit owners were at any risk, other than having their privacy violated; the staff of the Journal ARE at risk to having direct revenge taken upon them. Good idea in jeopardising the safety of tonnes of people many people are apparently angry with.

The man who posted this information is as much and idiot at deserves are much scrutiny as those that posted the gun-permit owners' information.

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They earned it. As far as I am concerend they got what they had coming.

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VanceMack said:

Right...so...the blogger just posted it to prove a point. If journalists get hurt...well...that's just an unfortunate coincidence. No intent.

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Coincidence of what? What is your reason for supporting the act of releasing their information, Jamesrage has flat out said he wants to endanger people, but whats your reason that this endangerment is just an unfortunate consequence of. And like when we nuked Japan, was is your actual intent that justifies endangering them?

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Wiseone said:

Coincidence of what? What is your reason for supporting the act of releasing their information, Jamesrage has flat out said he wants to endanger people, but whats your reason that this endangerment is just an unfortunate consequence of. And like when we nuked Japan, was is your actual intent that justifies endangering them?

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Simple. I think we both agree that what the paper did was stupid...a very bad idea. I think the blogger response reinforced that notion and made it far less likely the paper would do something that stupid ever again. Its punching the bully BACK right in the mouth. It will make the bully stop and reassess.

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VanceMack said:

Simple. I think we both agree that what the paper did was stupid...a very bad idea. I think the blogger response reinforced that notion and made it far less likely the paper would do something that stupid ever again. Its punching the bully BACK right in the mouth. It will make the bully stop and reassess.

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So to make the paper, and I suppose the rest of the media too, less likely to do something that stupid again you reinforced that notion by publishing their names and addresses. But how does that deter their actions at all? Well obviously because it endangers them, or at the very least makes them a target, or lets someone who wishes to target them have an easier time at it. So your intent is to deter, and the way you deter is by endanger them, making them a target, or letting someone who wants to target them have an easier time of it.

This is not endangerment as a secondary outcome of your intent, endangerment here is the means of achieving the intent because without that endangerment your action, publishing their names, has no affect at all.

But either way, you knew full well that publishing their information would endanger them so what was the intent that justified that as either a means or secondary outcome.