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if you need an example of a PhD claiming to have altruistic motives gone awry, look no further Ted Kaczynski
by the_cat_kittles 12y ago
if you need an example of a PhD claiming to have altruistic motives gone awry, look no further Ted Kaczynski
- contingencies 12y agoHis motives for the violence were to get published somewhere with serious readership... and he succeeded, IIRC?
- ufmace 12y agoNow that's kinda funny to think about. He railed against technology, and his goal was to get his rants read. If it was a few years later, he could have published them on the internet, where anybody in the world could read it... if not for him being anti-technology in the first place.
- contingencies 12y agoPotential readership online is huge, that is true. However, being published in a major global paper is more like a way to ensure immediate global readership. I think the distinction is important, and he was seeking the latter.