Lavabit Shut Down
What was that other choice? "Unfortunately, I can't talk about that," Levison said during today's interview. "I would like to, believe me. I think that if the American people knew what our government was doing, they wouldn't be allowed to do it anymore. My hope is that the media can uncover what's going on without my assistance" and pressure Congress, he said. Together with Lavabit's own efforts working through the court system, he hopes it can "put a cap on what the government is entitled to in terms of our private communications."
With the exception of certain comic book supervillians, the bad always think that they are the good guys.
The essence of Objectivism's moral code is rooting egoism in metaphysics and epistemology in order to remove and forbid that equivalency.