Thu Oct 08, 2015 4:41 am

Let me state my rationale, as I think it's necessary:



1. I wouldn't want this to happen to anyone I'm friends with or care about.

2. I think this makes us hypocritical when we talk about the importance of privacy.

3. I don't think any one of us are in a position to judge whether someone 'deserves it' or not.

4. None of us really appreciate the moral consequences if something tragic happens as a result.



But, let's accept the premise that some people deserve it. There's a reason why you want high standards (e.g. unanimous guilty verdict from a panel of 12 jurors) to determine whether someone is guilty of a serious crime beyond reasonable doubt, where the consequences are significant (loss of freedom/life). Ideally, these standards aren't there to make it hard to convict the guilty in and of itself. Rather, they are there to protect the innocent with the rationale that we would rather sometimes acquit the guilty than convict the innocent.



Bringing it back to doxxing: whether or not a person deserves to be doxxed is beyond the responsibility and scope of this forum to decide. In this forum, our standard should be zero tolerance as we would rather the guilty go undoxxed than the innocent doxxed.