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Nice synopsis although I suspect faction A will claim you're misrepresenting them. My take on it is that the prosecution did what prosecutors do. Jason Swartz

Nice synopsis although I suspect faction A will claim you're misrepresenting them. My take on it is that the prosecution did what prosecutors do. Jason Swartz seems to me to have been somewhat bipolar, and in manic phases he was brilliant, enthusiastic, idealistic, and a bit nuts -- which is what got him in trouble. In his depressive phase he killed himself. Blaming the prosecutors for his decisions is a tad harsh. The truth is complex and sad.

jacquesm 14y ago
> Nice synopsis although I suspect faction A will claim you're misrepresenting them. There are two kinds of people, those that try to divide the world into two groups and those that don't. > My take on it is that the prosecution did what prosecutors do. Likely true, but that does not make it right or morally defensible in this case. > Jason Swartz ... > seems to me to have been somewhat bipolar, and in manic phases he was brilliant, enthusiastic, idealistic, and a bit nuts -- which is what got him in trouble. No, what got him into trouble is his tendency to stand up against vested interests. If he'd been picking on the neighborhood streetpeople nobody would have noticed. But he wasn't that kind of person, he tried very hard to improve the world as he saw it, to fix broken parts of it using his skills. > In his depressive phase he killed himself. That's a shortcut for which you are missing a bunch of supporting evidence. > Blaming the prosecutors for his decisions is a tad harsh. Saying they don't carry any blame at all is equally harsh. The truth is - contrary to those that want to divide the world into black and white or two groups - something in the middle of that. There is plenty of blame to go around here. > The truth is complex and sad. That part of your comment we can agree on.
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Nice synopsis although I suspect faction A will claim you're misrepresenting them. My take on it is that the prosecution did what prosecutors do. Jason Swartz

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jacquesm 14y ago
> Nice synopsis although I suspect faction A will claim you're misrepresenting them. There are two kinds of people, those that try to divide the world into two groups and those that don't. > My take on it is that the prosecution did what prosecutors do. Likely true, but that does not make it right or morally defensible in this case. > Jason Swartz ... > seems to me to have been somewhat bipolar, and in manic phases he was brilliant, enthusiastic, idealistic, and a bit nuts -- which is what got him in trouble. No, what got him into trouble is his tendency to stand up against vested interests. If he'd been picking on the neighborhood streetpeople nobody would have noticed. But he wasn't that kind of person, he tried very hard to improve the world as he saw it, to fix broken parts of it using his skills. > In his depressive phase he killed himself. That's a shortcut for which you are missing a bunch of supporting evidence. > Blaming the prosecutors for his decisions is a tad harsh. Saying they don't carry any blame at all is equally harsh. The truth is - contrary to those that want to divide the world into black and white or two groups - something in the middle of that. There is plenty of blame to go around here. > The truth is complex and sad. That part of your comment we can agree on.
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