The New Realities

Jim Geraghty made this remark in light of the NSA spying leaks: “Of course, you can do the right thing and still break the law.”

Meanwhile, Sesame Street debuts an education kit for helping kids deal with an incarcerated parent.

Clearly, there’s not such an epidemic of questionable spying document dumping in this country that these two things are directly related, but I don’t think they are completely unrelated, either. It’s a sad day when we pretty much joke about how practically everyone is a criminal these days because they’ve probably cross some regulation they never even knew existed.

It reminds me of a Kindle book my mom bought me that I really need to read soon: Trapped: When Acting Ethically is Against the Law

Unfortunately, since the answers to these issues don’t fit into a soundbite, don’t expect any serious discussions about the topic from our political leaders.

4 thoughts on “The New Realities”

  1. To paraphrase a banner in every public school I’ve ever visited: “What’s right isn’t always easy legal, and what's easy legal isn't always right."

    1. Try that again, with CORRECT HTML tags:
      To paraphrase a banner in every public school I’ve ever visited: “What’s right isn’t always easy legal, and what’s easy legal isn’t always right.”

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