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Why kill someone they were about to get legitimately?
Because whatever he says in a trial becomes public record and widely reported on.
A lot of down voting of perfectly reasonable comments in this thread...
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I feel like a lot of people in this thread are forgetting he likely killed his neighbor in 2012 and has been on the run since. In America, we're supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty. It's a shame it really only takes an accusation.
He was found guilty in a civil suit, and has been actively avoiding a criminal trial. "Likely" is a fully appropriate term, since all evidence points to that being the case, but (as you say) there has been no trial to subject that thesis to evidence.
"Likely" != "in my opinion"
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#153From McAffee in 2019, "Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm. " https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/120086428376625152...
There was a ruling today approving his extradition to the US. US officials were about to get him and he was facing extremely serious charges. That's a really important bit of context to keep in mind before jumping to ideas that some shadowy "they" had him killed.
I have hard time believing this, either that he died or his motive. Tax evasion has one of the most lenient punishments of white collar crimes.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
And then he killed himself to set off moronic conspiracy theories as a final FU to the USA.
Which is more believable, that he was murdered, or that he killed himself to troll people?
Truly the latter. He was not a well-adjusted, grounded individual.
Also, what benefit is there to the US to kill him? They already won. Being able to kill people you have custody of is a weak message compared to "nowhere is safe from us".
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#155He has lived a very interesting life, to say it mildly. I can think of worse lives to have lived, especially considering how rich he was, how salacious a life he lead with his drug-and-sex filled decades and even killing someone. Ending it via suicide in a Spanish prison seems just about par for the course given the rest of his life.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't describe being held in custody pending extradition as "being free". YMMV.
Yes and no. It's not like I'd expect him to carry a cyanide pill and just as he's about to be arrested swallows it to be technically correct. I think this qualifies "dying free" in spirit since his death means objection to remaining in custody.
Just to be clear: We're saying it's admirable to kill yourself rather than face the consequences of your illegal behavior? That's what we're respecting in this thread?
The man was believed to have committed a litany of offenses including attacking other humans but "he was so respectable because he never let them convict him"?
"Bad rich guy kills himself in pathetic attempt to avoid justice" would be my preferred headline personally.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
The better questions are, did he deserve to be imprisoned and did he deserve to die?
> did he deserve to die? Is there a coherent answer to this in the case of suicide? I feel like we enter a liar's paradox since the entity who decides whether you deserve to die is yourself.
Aaron Swartz?
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#158I feel like a lot of people in this thread are forgetting he likely killed his neighbor in 2012 and has been on the run since. I mean, sure he built some antivirus software a few decades ago, but I don't think he deserves the eulogies he's getting here. He's not tech's Hunter S. Thompson; he's a murderer who spent the last years of his life screwing over people with crypto scams.
Was he convincted of murder, or are you acting as the judge and jury based on third hand media reports?
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
As cynical as it might seem, there is an alternative possibility: in spite of getting a tattoo saying he would not kill himself, and in spite of posting a tweet saying he would not kill himself, he went ahead and killed himself.
It is indeed an alternative possiblity, but the possiblity that he was murdered should not be discounted. Murdering those that challenge authority has been happening since the dawn of history and nothing has fundamentally changed. Well other than needing to make it look like a suicide since modern society likes to believe it's enlightened.
McAfee was an obviously unhinged lunatic peddling fringe nonsense. You can make an argument that cryptocurrency poses a threat to the state, but a 75 year old man who spends 16 hours a day rambling on twitter about fringe stuff does not. The available evidence points strongly to a deeply mentally ill guy facing life in prison and killing himself.