Reply #20: Let me pose some other hypotheticals:

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What if the supervisor was a Democrat in an otherwise conservative company, was a jerk, and was a closet gay? Would you out him if it would give you his job? Would you out him if you would not get his job? Would you out him if you discovered he was putting sexual pressure on a fellow employee? Reporting sexual harassment would be appropriate in any case, but in this situation the choice to report it would clearly "out" him and possibly have more consequences than it otherwise would.

The variations are endless. We do not live in a simple black and white world. What would be considered to be wrong or reprehensible for personal gain or revenge might be viewed entirely differently under different circumstances.