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MIT Investigating School's Role In Swartz Suicide
The untimely death of Aaron Swartz has raised a lot of questions over the weekend. Now MIT is launching an internal investigation to determine what role the school played in his suicide. From the article: "In a statement, MIT President L. Rafael Reif offered his condolences, saying that the school's community was 'extremely saddened by the death of this promising young man who touched the lives of so many. Now is a time for everyone involved to reflect on their actions, and that includes all of us at MIT,' Reif said. 'I have asked professor Hal Abelson to lead a thorough analysis of MIT's involvement from the time that we first perceived unusual activity on our network in fall 2010 up to the present. I have asked that this analysis describe the options MIT had and the decisions MIT made, in order to understand and to learn from the actions MIT took. I will share the report with the MIT community when I receive it.'"
I won't make the same claim for children, but when an adult commits suicide, the only one responsible, is that individual. I don't care how much somebody verbally abuses you, the only person who can be blamed, if you commit suicide, is you. That doesn't mean that other people are not jerks, but you can not blame them for somebody else's decision to take their own life. Along those same lines, this idea that people should be able to spot the warning signs is also asinine. Unless they actually tell you that they are going to end their life, you probably won't recognized the difference between somebody planning to take their own life to one who is just introverted. In this case, MIT can look at their internal policies to appease the touchy feely types, but there is no reason they should have to do so.
The only people I will feel sorry for are the close friends and family who cared about Aaron Swartz.
Some days I get the sinking feeling Orwell was an optimist.
The US Justice System is there to enforce the law. I don't know what relevance this has or what you hoped to achieve with your parroted statistics but I don't find it very helpful here. He was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud among other things and when someone alerts the authorities that this may have taken place, they investigate it. If I bypassed your home's security and installed a laptop in your home that connected to your network and took all your files, would you want there to be laws against that? That's what they were investigating -- is there any evidence of undue or unjust actions in this investigation? I think that's what MIT wants to find out here.
And Bush,Cheney, and their associated ilk were charged with war crimes (http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-absentia/). Where's the enforcement there, huh? Fuck you. AmeriKKKa is a thugocracy, established by albino slaveholders.
You know, that almost sounds like an endorsement for suicide which is probably one of the most disgusting and vehement posts I've read here so far. There is nothing rational nor sane about taking one's own life. When I was 16 one of my friends committed suicide and more recently a roommate's girlfriend came over while my roommate was gone and committed suicide. As someone who has witnessed the aftermath both to someone who meant so much to me and someone I barely knew, I will tell you right now that it is a terrible act that impacts everyone -- and most often in a profoundly negative way. To call it 'rational' or 'sane' in any case reveals that you do not know anything about suicide.
There is plenty rational and sane about committing suicide when you're facing 30+ years of prison! I would do it in a second. Probably after killing dumbfucks like yourself first, though.
It's good you found a way to interject Bush, Cheney, and even Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa phrase all while cowering from your anonymous hole. Nothing is rational or sane about suicide. It is the ultimate selfish act for cowards.