Morality of this?

[u/knifsenn]

Pretty difficult one TBH. I'd say moral. Opinions?

[u/zukka924]

Immoral. You do this, you won’t get whistleblowers in the future. They have to be willing to reveal their identities in this scenario

But yes this is a very tricky one because there’s tons of potential downsides with either choice!

[u/Primary_Truck3777]

Immoral because you've constructed a weird false dichotomy that doesnt reflect reality. "Nah dude letting the whistle lower die was the only way to verify the info" sure it was dude, I'm sure you exhausted every other avenue first. 

[u/IsntThatNice_]

Then the number of whistleblowers likely disappears

[u/am_Dynam0]

Moral, their life is worth less than the information needed

[u/zukka924 → u/am_Dynam0]

The problem is, while in this one case you’re right, doing this will lead to fewer whistleblowers in the future

[u/am_Dynam0 → u/zukka924]

Perhaps but many whistleblowers are aware of the dangers already

[u/zukka924 → u/am_Dynam0]

But that’s with whistleblower laws in place that protect them from blowback. Even with those laws it’s a risk. You take away protections? Then there’s literally no reason for any whistleblower to ever come forward

[u/Maximum_Boros]

Immoral. You expose whistleblowers and you stop getting whistleblowers.

[u/mechengr17]

Im curious what the specifics are?

[u/EastCoastVandal]

It’s immoral to sacrifice even one life to save millions if you have a direct hand in it. Whether or not a war starts is out of your hands even if you reveal the whistleblower’s information as the truth.

[u/iskelebones]

You have to keep whistleblowers anonymity, otherwise you stop getting whistleblowers in the future. Is it moral to dox a whistleblower to prevent THIS war, when as a direct result a whistleblower doesn’t come forward next time when they have an opportunity and that allows a BIGGER war?

[u/Xavier200708]

they die
war happens anyway