At first I felt some added discretion would be wise, but the more I think about WikiLeaks’ continued release of classified government documents, the more I support it. It is, after all, what Mulder and Scully would do.

The official position on the action is that it puts people’s lives at risk. But let’s be honest, the accuracy of this position is extremely arguable, if not definitively incorrect. The release of thousands of classified documents doesn’t put people’s lives at risk. It simply puts new and different people’s lives at risk. That is the nature of living in a global theatre dominated by ruthless murderers. Last time I checked, it was murderers—not messengers—who put people’s lives at risk.

Last week, an individual observed in response to one of my other pieces that she could be a good person and still get shot. Well:

Yes.

Good people are slaughtered like cattle. Routinely, dispassionately, en masse. Expect it to happen.

It seems to me that the promise of certain doom, regardless of whether we do right or wrong, is a perfectly comprehensive incentive for doing right.