>> It’s not a high horse
Of course it is. Your dogma is rather loopy. You’re also taking a vacuous position, as we’re in an anonymous internet forum with essentially zero possibility of being tested in the real world.
Whatever makes your socks roll up and down though. I’m happy you could use the exchange to stroke your ego; it seems you need that.
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Even a dishwasher might be convinced to leave a door unlocked... you know, if he really needs the money.
In the corporate world, it's someone sending private company info in an emial to a buddy (or on Facebook) because they either don't realize what a breach they're making, or they simply don't care (or, they're doing it "just once" in exchange for a favor). As the business owner, the net effect is the same to me -- someone is leaking my confidential information. So to avoid that, I am not going to hire someone who has shown me that they will do so if they think the circumstances warrant.
This isn't dogma, it's not vacuous, and it's not ego-stroking -- it's basic security and common sense. Hey, if you want to hire someone who has no clue about how say to say "no" in order to keep confidential things confidential, that's your (soon to be extinct) business.