Is this true??

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    3 days ago

    Since they “helped” the Swiss court by following necessary Swiss law, didn’t they “help” the FBI?

    If they didn’t even know the FBI was asking the Swiss courts, one could still say what they they did was “helpful” to the FBI.

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        No. That’s the point. We have different ideas about what it means to help. I think help is simply doing something (or not doing something) that benefits someone else. You (and others) seem to also give it some additional qualities related to consent, agrement, or support. Since I don’t ascribe any moral judgement to the word and only use its most limited literal meaning, I hope it’s more clear to you how confusing it can be when you infer morality from amoral terms, and try to refrain from doing so in the future. Communication would be much smoother if people were more deliberately literal with their word choice.