Motivations can make villains, as well as heroes

Rating: 7/10 (23 January 2017)

When you watch an Oliver Stone flick, you get his slant, and not real history. The personal reasons of the subject are not the issue here. I give this a grudging 7 of 10, based upon a good illustration of the protagonist's motivations. But so far, history has shown, no benefit was derived from his actions, and far more damage to people's lives. Stone leaves out the damage done to peoples lives that resulted from Snowden's actions. All of history is full of patriots and tyrants who have had Snowden's motivations. In this case, he failed. Snowden wasn't a tyrant, but he certainly was a villain. The individual lives he damaged are unredeemed. And all the government had to do, was just write some different programs and change placement of assets, and discard painfully physical as well as mental damage to the human assets. Very sad. Why do smart liberal people think their outcome will be positive, when all that is certain is the damage? To me, hurting people because of a very slim chance of a positive outcome is morally repugnant. But once again, morals have little to do with the actions of men like Snowden.