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Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz

Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz

Posted Jan 15, 2013 1:37 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz by ibukanov
Parent article: Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz

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?


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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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