Willing to Pay the Price

The liberal spin on Mary McCarthy, the CIA's national secrets leaker, is that it was OK for her to leak national secrets as long as she was willing to pay the price, presumably employment termination and the potential of criminal prosecution. Lots of liberals got the talking points memo it seems. Watch the liberal bloviation here.

This is secular humanism at its pinnacle. Nothing is morally wrong, as long as you are willing to "pay the price."

Let's examine the argument.

By that reasoning, it is OK for X to murder Y, as long as X is willing to pay the price.

It is OK for Islamic terrorists to fly planes into the World Trade Center as long as they were willing to play the price (which they were).

It is OK for the Government to shut down newspapers with which it disagrees as long as it is willing to pay the price (losing a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, I guess).

Does this reasoning make anyone gag besides me?

But even with the liberals' specious reasoning, their argument falls apart, because Ms. McCarthy was not "willing to pay the price." She denies she leaked the information (Newsweek disputes the denial, sort of, having confirmed that Ms. McCarthy was fired for having "unauthorized contacts with the media and discussion of classified information."” Story here.). Whoever leaked the information did so anonymously. That is not exactly being willing to pay the price, is it?

For an excellent recap of the background for the situation, click here.