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Who goes alone in a home-made submarine with a strange mad scientist?
by fiatjaf 9y ago
Who goes alone in a home-made submarine with a strange mad scientist?
- knodi123 9y agotons of people, regularly, over the last few years. this guy was very active and his sub has been in service for the better half of a decade.
- fiatjaf 9y agoSo he was apparently a nice normal guy, with no signs of madness?
- plorkyeran 9y agoOh no, he was very clearly mad. Just not the sort of madness that gave the slightest indication that he'd deliberately cause harm to anyone (accidentally causing harm by talking people into things, on the other hand...).
- fiatjaf 9y agoahahah, sorry, that was an unexpected response. So maybe that's what happened? He talked the journalist into something and later saw that she had died because of that, probably also causing harm to the submarine?, then panic'ed and told lies to the police.
- aw3c2 9y agoMadsen, not madness.
- wodenokoto 9y agoI met him at a conference where he talked. Very charismatic person with a strong passion for his projects. Very friendly and openminded about ideas from anybody, but obviously also eccentric. I would definitely have gone on a tour of that submarine with him.
- flexie 9y agoMany people including other journalists before her. I honestly don't think anyone before this incident would think it involves any danger at all. A subway dive with a well educated, white middle aged man who is regularly in the media is not your typical crime scene.
- erikpukinskis 9y ago> not your typical crime scene. Not a scene of crimes typically investigated, prosecuted, etc. We'll never really know what crimes would get on the books if the criminal justice system decided (against their better judgement) to go after the powerful as hard as they go after the weak.
- fiatjaf 9y agoWhy I've had 4 downvotes here?
- jacquesm 9y agoBecause it is the dumbest example of victim blaming seen in a long time here?
- fiatjaf 9y agoWhy dumb?
- dang 9y agoWould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments?
- fiatjaf 9y agoHey, I was called "dumb" like that and everything is ok, but asking why my question was dumb is discouraged like that? I was asking it sincerely.
- DanBC 9y agoYou're linking "mental illness" to "violence", and saying there's a strong link. There isn't. Mental illness is only a very weak predictor of violence.
- wodenokoto 9y agoWhile this is not the best of posts, I do think some of the responses deserve better than to be buried with it. I gave it an up vote in order to unbury the rest of the discussion.