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A comment on US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide. Parent comment

Re:US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide by fatbird on Sunday January 13, 2013 @01:27PM (#5051361)
One can view Swartz as completely responsible for his own suicide, while still observing that the overzealous prosecution was a factor that shouldn't have happened regardless of Swartz committing suicide.

In other words, the suicide serves to highlight what was already an absurd injustice, and that injustice alone is sufficient to act on. Doing so doesn't make Ortiz or Heymann responsible for the death; only for their own manifestly unjust prosecution.

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Re:US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide by paulgb on Sunday January 13, 2013 @01:51PM (#5051443)
Well put, but in the context of this post, I think the parent comment is valid. The title, "US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide", seems to imply blame rather than shedding light on an injustice.
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