We are Anonymous. We are powerful.

Is it right for one group of people to have enough power to ruin a person’s life or to over throw governments? You can see a perfect example of this if you look at the situation in Ferguson, Missouri when the hacking community known as Anonymous recently threated to release the personal info on the officer involved in the shooting of the unarmed teenager Michael Brown if the violence on the protesters was not stopped. To answer this question someone has to taking into consideration is the reason morally acceptable, the responsibility behind the power, and if it is socially acceptable. To begin with is it morally acceptable to use the power available to possibly cause the death of another human. One would have to look at the situation that caused the threat to take place. Some may say that it would be right for Anonymous to use the power at hand to bring vengeance to the brutal death of Michael Brown. On the other hand some may say that the death of one should not be an excuse to cause the death of another. But in the end the one with all the power has to be the judge of what is morally acceptable because they are the ones with all the power to determine if the one responsible for Michael Brown’s death deserves to die. Additional, the responsibility of Anonymous to use the power they have in the right way and not to use the information in a destructive way. This somewhat ties into the morally acceptability of the problem at hand but the responsibilities go beyond the morals of the situation. They need to take into fact who else the information harms such as family members and so on. Some may say that responsibility does not play a part in the power to destroy. But you have to think that it may not be that bad if the person with the power to destroy may not be that bad if they were responsible with that type of power. But also the lack of responsibility can be a serious problem because if Anonymous was not responsible with the information it can cause the death of many other innocent people such as the officer’s family and friends. So as long as Anonymous is fully responsible with the information they possess it should be fine. Furthermore, the point of if it would be socially acceptable for one group to have the power to destroy a person’s life. This may also seem like the same as being morally acceptable but in some cases it may be socially acceptable to do something but it may not be morally acceptable to do it or vice versa. To see if it would be socially acceptable to use the power to destroy someone’s life you need to look at society’s response to the incident that took place in Ferguson, Missouri. Society responded with protests against police brutality and the police responded with force so that is the events that caused Anonymous to take action against the Ferguson police. And I believe that it would be socially acceptable to release the information because of the response that the police had on the protesters. In conclusion, is it right for an organization to have the power to cause complete and total destruction to a person’s life? To even begin to answer this question one has to take into consideration if it would be morally acceptable, the responsibility that comes with the power, and if it would be socially acceptable to use the power.