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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by benologist on Thursday January 02, 2014 @11:06PM (#7004093)
If it wasn't the legal system it would have been literally any other reason, big or small, that Aaron felt was terminally wrong with his life.
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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by icelancer on Thursday January 02, 2014 @11:18PM (#7004143)
This is incredibly insulting. How could you possibly know this?
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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by benologist on Thursday January 02, 2014 @11:41PM (#7004189)
Because depressed, suicidal people kill themselves, usually when they're not facing prison?

In 2007 Schwartz posted what was believed to be a suicide note after being fired from reddit: http://digitaljournal.com/article/341150

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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by serf on Friday January 03, 2014 @10:13AM (#7005768)
Right.. but people tend to become depressed and suicidal when faced with prison time.

Being fired is also high on the depression list.

You're pointing out two dark moments in someones life. I've had far more than two and I don't by any means consider myself depressed.

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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by mpyne on Friday January 03, 2014 @05:05PM (#7008546)
> I've had far more than two and I don't by any means consider myself depressed.

That's actually the point... it is depression that kills, not merely subjecting someone to a "dark moment" in their life. We wouldn't have blamed Alexis and the rest of Team Reddit if Aaron had killed himself after being fired, we would have blamed his depression.

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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by icelancer on Thursday January 02, 2014 @11:58PM (#7004236)
You could have easily said "I don't know that for sure" instead of posting irrelevant information.
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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by PhasmaFelis on Friday January 03, 2014 @10:05PM (#7009792)
Obviously false, or he would've killed himself years ago over someone buying the wrong kind of toilet paper.

Seriously, please educate yourself before offering embarrassing opinions. Clinical depression does not mean automatic suicide, it just makes you more prone to considering suicide when things are bad.

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