[ShorsHammer]

I'm happy for Snowden, he seems like a decent person willing to take a stand for what is right and face all the negative outcomes from exposing crimes within an organisation.

[anoonmoose]

Kind of weird to say he "faced all the negative outcomes" when he fled the US to avoid the most major of the potential negative outcomes.

[save_ferris]

Blowing the whistle completely upended his life. Anyone in his shoes would've made the same decision to leave because being tried under the Espionage Act would've yielded a guaranteed life sentence. People have a right to flee tyranny, wherever it is.

[jeremyjh]

Fleeing the homeland of your birth and moving to Russia is itself a pretty negative outcome.

[coddle-hark]

That’s kind of like saying “he avoided most of the potential negative outcomes because they killed him”.