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I think it's kind of ridiculous that everyone is pointing fingers at "everyone else" other than the man responsible for the suicide, Aaron Swartz himself. I kn
by cbs 14y ago
I think it's kind of ridiculous that everyone is pointing fingers at "everyone else" other than the man responsible for the suicide, Aaron Swartz himself.
I know some people are pointing the finger, but not everyone is.
While I wouldn't draw the link between the prosecution and suicide as others do, in reflection after a death it is possible to look at the person's work in the last few years and say "Why yes, there does seem to be some bullshit going on here, lets use this opportunity to draw attention to it."
Just because some people do assign blame, it doesn't mean the rest of us should let those wrongly blamed off the hook for anything other than that which they were wrongly blamed.
While discussing this now, people run the risk of appearing to assign blame even when they're not. But discussing the case a month after now, they'll run the risk of nobody really giving a shit. Next month people will say "He's dead, its over, move on."