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I'm not at all arguing that shutting up will make everything be fine. I'm arguing that mentioning the most logical trigger as a sure main/only cause for the su

• AnthonyMouse 14y ago
  >We sure must not accept what is regularly being done in prosecutions, but not because someone died, rather because it's a policy of terror instead of application of justice. I understand. I just don't think it's that simple. A major part of making normal people understand the severity of this policy of terror is to understand what its victims feel. You can't just separate the two so easily and say "excessive prosecutions are bad, go fight them" -- to do that we still have to convince people why they're so bad, to make them understand what the victims of the justice system feel, and "they're so egregious they're capable of driving good people to suicide" is a very powerful fact if you can show it. It's the kind of thing that can make the difference in whether it gets fixed or not.
  • koide 14y ago
    Yes, by all means use his death for something useful like fighting this system. But you can do that in different ways, some more potentially harmful than others. It'd be interesting to know how many people commit suicide on prosecution.