Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago

Re:Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago by chernevik on Monday January 14, 2013 @06:32PM (#5057403)

I see zero inconsistency between on one day saying that someone should take personal responsibility for their activism, and on another day regretting that this same person took their own life.

The notion that Aaron's legal position caused his suicide is an opinion of many people on this board. Despite the numbers of those holding this opinion, it is still only an opinion, and needn't be read as fact for any other analysis or opinion. The insistence that everyone hold _your_ opinions for all of _their_ opinions and moral calculations is, at very best, deeply problematic.

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Re:Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago by spinlocked on Monday January 14, 2013 @07:25PM (#5057630)

You could perhaps see the consistency also between rallying round a cause and making a difference to the status quo.

These "opinions" are shared by his family, read the statement.

_You_ are problematic.

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Re:Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago by chernevik on Monday January 14, 2013 @07:59PM (#5057781)

You are advocating for your beliefs (here, ironically, freedom of information) by insisting that others surrender their freedom of thought.

I don't mind causing problems for people doing that.

I am terribly sorry for the family and their loss. But that loss does not make them arbiters of responsibility.

Neither do the needs of any cause give anyone the right to dictate what others think or conclude or hold as fact. I could agree with your "cause" 100% and I would still, I hope, oppose this sort of demand for mindless conformity with "correct" opinion.

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