higgildypiggildy wrote on May 23
rd, 2015 at 1:48am:
I think Jerry did the right thing.
Munk agreed to the NDA then broke it out wide open. Deliberatly, intentionally, wilfully.
NDA = non disclosure agreement. It's something based on your word that you agreed to. And you forfeited your word. You now stand as a man without honour. A liar.
I despise liars. I have no trust in what they say. I put them in the same category of people as journalists, politicians and lawyers. Scum.
FACT RANTFactually speaking, when someone lies in one context it does not mean they are going to lie in another. People are not universally truthful. People are (generally) truthful in the manner that servers them.
Confirmation bias is a major problem in the sciences. Sectarian bias leads someone into assuming truth from which they have no experience.
Intentional lies (in the case of an NDA) mean that the liar did not respect the institution the NDA was protecting. There are various whistleblower scenarios in corporations: all of those people "lied" on their NDAs.
While breaking turbine's NDA might be (morally) wrong in this case, I don't think that the decision has any
harm to other people when you do break it.
If a lawyer lies to protect someone he believes to be a murderer, he is valuing money over a potential threat to society. There is harm in this scenario.
If a vaultie leaked NDA info, they forwent any personal benefit of that info (for playing, or selling optics etc). Maybe turbine has some genuine detriment in sharing development info.