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Cory Doctorow on Aaron SwartzCory Doctorow on Aaron SwartzPosted Jan 14, 2013 13:44 UTC (Mon) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)Parent article: Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz is a real hero. And perhaps his dearth is not really caused by depression but rather is the final sacrifice that he put on himself in a calculated attempt to bring the issues he was fighting for forward.
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Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz Posted Jan 14, 2013 16:31 UTC (Mon) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]
Unlikely. You can accomplish a lot more things by being alive than becoming a martyr for a cause. Though some causes may be so big that most people consider their own death to be small price to pay for accomplishing them. This one doesn't strike me as something meeting that bar.
Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz Posted Jan 14, 2013 16:54 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Arguably, Attorney General thought that it _was_ big enough for that. 30 year sentence is a de-facto life sentence.
Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz Posted Jan 14, 2013 19:35 UTC (Mon) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]
Sentence of $BULLSHIT years is not going to convince me that you are right. It is likely a product of peculiar corruption of the american justice system, that of overcharging suspects for all sorts of ridiculous crimes for the sake of pressuring them to settle without trial.
Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz Posted Jan 15, 2013 1:37 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
Perhaps. Perhaps it was caused by government mind control lasers, or toxoplasmosis or exposure to lead as a child. We don't know. We probably won't know. Would knowing change anything?
Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz Posted Jan 15, 2013 9:34 UTC (Tue) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]
I do not like the implied cowardice that is assigned to people who killed themselves. It is true that many suicides are in fact attempts to bring attention to themselves and the person hoped that they would be saved. However, this is very unlikely when one hanged himself in an apartment which nobody would visit for hours. Even for a wrong reason, he had strong will to carry out that.
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