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Re:Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies... by dudeinjapan on Sunday June 11, 2023 @05:51AM (#36279764)
Surely Ted believed what he was doing was a great good, a service to rouse the masses to revolt against modern society (or something like that.)
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Re:Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies... by JKCalhoun on Sunday June 11, 2023 @06:37AM (#36280043)
I'm not so sure. It's hard to take a murderer at their word — especially one who is trying to justify their crimes.
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Re:Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies... by inferiorhuman on Sunday June 11, 2023 @06:36AM (#36280034) 

  Surely Ted believed what he was doing was a great good
Hardly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65867291

  In his own journals he wrote that he didn't claim to be "altruist or to
  be acting for the 'good' (whatever that is) of the human race", instead
  insisting that he acted "merely from a desire for revenge".
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Re:Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies... by 11235813213455 on Sunday June 11, 2023 @07:54AM (#36280527)
When you target a plane, it's quite symbolic for the pollution and destruction of the environment
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