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I personally do, he actually risked his life to release information about the government spying on people. And there are for sure more advanced ways now. Even your phone is listening.
I mean I have no idea what this guy's like, outside of what he's broadly known for, but I definately approve of what he did in regards of informing the greater public about the level of intrusion they are actively seeking to have into everybody's life.
'Hero' is a term of social worship for those that enact change.
Do I think he did a moral act that aligned with his principles, motivated by compassion for others? Did he forsee what it would cost him and do it anyway because he believed it was the right thing to do, no matter how hard? Yes, and yes.
But he'd only be a 'hero' if anybody actually cared enough to do anything about it, making him a symbol of social change that people would be grateful for him instigating.
Instead, he falls victim to the same traps as those who self-immolate outside buildings to make their point: a spectacle of sacrifice, exchanged for confused apathy from those he claimed to stand for.
That really sucks. He was trying to make a real difference. He had to flee his home forever, because of the cost of him trying to save it.
I think you are being pedantic. If you went in risking your life to rescue a puppy from a burning house but the puppy doesn't make it because of the fumes or you jump on a robber but he kills and leaves with the money anyway, do you stop being a hero because you failed to enact change? That's ridiculous.
He could have been, but his actions and words since has made me feel he had ulterior motives from the start.
He did a good thing. Don't know enough about the man to pass judgement.
And after all, the guy that killed Hitler (undoubtedly a good thing) was very much an asshole.
Yes.
I don't know. He reminds me more of Emma Goldman -- an idealist and an anarchist.
If anything the world has become a far harsher place than it was more than a decade ago, what with dictators doubling down in trying to put down dissent, as whatever he divulged didn't seem to stop those monsters, regardless of what flag they wrap around themselves.
He was in 2013. And that's what counts.
I struggle with it. I know he needs an international ally to protect him, but running to Russia and having nothing to say about their bullshit comes across sour to me. I'm thankful, at least, for the information he provided.