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Blowing people up is wrong. But his manifesto was right about many things. It’s interesting to skim through it every couple years.
by mberning 3y ago
Blowing people up is wrong. But his manifesto was right about many things. It’s interesting to skim through it every couple years.
- bheadmaster 3y ago> Blowing people up is wrong. So is performing torture experiments on them to see what happens them locking them up when they crack.
- davisr 3y agoMelting the polar ice caps, killing most if not all life on Earth, is also wrong. While Ted overstepped his boundaries on a man-to-man basis, the argument can certainly be made that it's _more_ wrong to see the wreck of this sick society and where it leads (death to all Earthly life) and doing nothing to stop it. I don't agree with Ted's actions that directly hurt other people (not random people by the way), but god damn he was hurting too. We should all feel the same pain he felt. The world would be better if we did, and maybe then we could kick our addiction to finite resources and short-term monkey-brain thinking.
- dredmorbius 3y agoFor those missing the reference, this being arguably what may have occurred in the present instance: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Murray#Harvard_human_experiments,_1959%E2%80%9362 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Murray#Harvard_human_exp...> Covered in Harvard and the Unabomber : the education of an American terrorist: <https://archive.org/details/harvardunabomber00chas/page/18/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/harvardunabomber00chas/page/18/m...>
- spurgu 3y agoThe problem he realized was that there's no political solution. Bombing people is obviously wrong but if you're convinced that humanity is heading down a destructive path then doing whatever you can to stop it makes sense, where the damage/suffering of the bombings would be comparatively (way) less than letting said future play out.