Re: [9fans] John Floren, Im trying to make the world better

["Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>]

2013/3/18  <vvs009@gmail.com>:
>> http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick
>>
>> Glad you're looking into this.  Let me know what you find out.
>
> Being sick and feeling depressed because of it isn't considered as
> "clinical". There should be better evidence than that. And it misses a
> point: there is no evidence, that if there weren't unsubstantiated
> criminal charges involved, it would happen at all.

Your argument is unfalsifiable. There is no evidence that if it hadn't
happened, it wouldn't have happened at all, other than the fact he
hadn't killed himself before he killed himself.

It is also reductio ad absurdum. Plenty of people are charged for
crimes they did not commit (and he was not innocent), and they do not
kill themselves.

If you're going to argue a point, don't resort to logical fallacies.

>> The government killed him.
>
> Well, there is such thing as "negligent homicide". So, in that sense, yes.

He broke laws. Was the case against him absurd? Sure. Was the sought
after punishment way harsher than the crime? I think so. Does that
make anyone other than him responsible for him killing himself? No.

That all said, since when is this antsfans@antsfans.net? Or
aaronswarzfans@aaronswartzfans.net? It's bad enough that it's
effectively anythingrelatedto@9fans.net, but this shit is nuts.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unsubscribe if I don't like it. I might.

--dho