Laws are necessary evils. Zealotry in the application of law helps absolutely no one and is one of the evils the necessity of laws creates. Aaron Swartz deser

Laws are necessary evils. Zealotry in the application of law helps absolutely no one and is one of the evils the necessity of laws creates. Aaron Swartz deserved, at worst, a slap on the wrist, not the kind of severe harassment in the name of the law which he got.