I agree two wrongs don't make a right and it's certainly a principal I try to live by.
However in the case of Wikileaks, I think they are taking right actions, that unfortunately can also enable others to do wrong.
I can think of many examples in our lives where our well intended actions can result in harm to others.
I know that driving my car, I might get into an accident and kill people, but I still do it. I know I'm contributing to global warming and am emitting gases that damage our health.
People didn't know that certain refrigerants depleted the ozone, so because I live in NZ I'm over 200% more likely of getting skin cancer than any other place in the world.
By asking one girl out, I might disappoint another girl.
My point is that our actions always have known and unknown impact on others, sometimes tiny, sometimes huge. And the impact is typically significant when the actions are on the international stage. Hopefully Wikileaks will consider the community's response to their latest major leak, but I think what they're doing is far too important for them to become paralysed from the fear of risking lives (due to other's actions I'll add) when so many lives are at stake. Certainly they're willing to accept their own lives are at stake.
They certainly need to do their best to mitigate the damage they do (just as they certainly mitigate the risk to themselves), and perhaps they can do better at that, but it is imperative they keep leaking this information. At least for me it is. I don't need to know nuclear launch codes, I don't need to know who's sleeping with whom. But I do need to know how the world's wealth and power is distributed and used. Mine is not a society where governments and organisations can use their power over others without the knowledge and consent of the people.
Sorry for the rant, but I figure this has been off the front page for a day or so now, so hopefully it won't cost me much karma.
