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fjuskpl[dead post] ◴[] No.41859183[source]
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DrillShopper ◴[] No.41859264[source]
Why do you care what a kooky murder thinks? What do you think Ted Bundy thinks about this? What do you think Charles Manson thinks? Jeff Dahmer?
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throwaway48476 ◴[] No.41859284[source]
Did any of them write a book on technology?
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DrillShopper ◴[] No.41859680[source]
No, but I fail to see how that matters.

I don't care if he wrote the fucking Bible - he's a mass murderer and the world was better with him in Supermax.

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edm0nd ◴[] No.41860376[source]
Side note, he was an extremely talented math nerd and his manifesto did raise some interesting questions about technology and society.

I wouldn't exactly call him a "mass murderer", he only actually killed 3 people over a 17 year time span. IMO a "mass murderer" kills a lot of people all at once in a single location, for example, like McVeigh.

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DrillShopper ◴[] No.41862309[source]
He only successfully killed 3 people - he definitely tried to kill more. That has to enter into the calculus. Not only that, by sending his packages through the mail he endangered many many more people in the process.

Relatedly: What's the threshold for you for body count before someone loses credibility? 5? 10? 100? 1000?

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Dylan16807 ◴[] No.41862526[source]
> Relatedly: What's the threshold for you for body count before someone loses credibility? 5? 10? 100? 1000?

I don't think any of those necessarily makes someone lose credibility for their writings.

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1. DrillShopper ◴[] No.41863223[source]
I think you and I fundamentally differ on this point then.