Yes, they breached trust, but it was not courageous, because there is basically zero chance of any kind of negative consequence for the individual, and any possible negative consequence would be extremely minimal.<p>My point about the courageousness of doing something like that under a despotic regime was not to say that is the only way to be courageous - my main point was that, if your bacon isn&#x27;t on the line, it probably isn&#x27;t courageous. For an example within the american system, even though I don&#x27;t quite agree with all his choices, what Snowden did was courageous, because he had to literally flee the country for what he did.