Re:Posthumously pardon Aaron Swartz
by rmc on Saturday January 12, 2013 @04:31PM
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Be very careful. One doesn't want to send a signal to people contemplating suicide that everything will go away if they complete suicide.
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Everything did go away for Aaron Swartz, because he's dead.
You aren't going to discourage people from suicide by being harder on the dead. And I don't think it's at all cool to imply that he got what was coming to him.