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Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by thaw13579 »

musicale wrote: post #163
10xDev wrote: post #23

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But resentment over what? I haven't seen anything on this.

Graduate student violence is more common that it should be. For example, you hear about suicides every year. I can't help but suspect that sometimes it may be related to graduate school itself, which can be stressful and unforgiving, with minimal support, and where supervisors often hold both academic power over their students' futures and financial power over their livelihoods. (And switching supervisors, even at th…

Sadly so, students often associate their self-worth with research and academic achievement, so if things go south, for whatever reason, they are in crisis.

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Post by olalonde »

mc32 wrote: post #69
ecshafer wrote: post #66

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If you watch some of the real life detective / crime shows. The people who murder people and get caught be cops, basically shoot people in broad daylight on camera, tell people about it, then immediately fold in interrogation.

People often fold during an interrogation/questioning unless they are career criminals and have been through the system and learn from their prior mistakes/luck.

Or unless they exercise their right to remain silent.

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by [deleted] »

lisbbb wrote: post #32

The thing that bothers me about the whole story, apart from the deaths of course, is that we live in a surveillance state. While I want major crimes to be resolved and there to be deterrents to future ones, I just don't know about turning the whole US into East Germany. It's not going to work out well for any of us. As you can see, it didn't help solve the crimes, either. It was witnesses who did all the heavy liftin…

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Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

bofadeez wrote: post #169
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #165

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> number of people have lost their lives, which keeps the scale of the tipster's personal losses in perspective I disagree. The shooter’s victims fell to a random act of violence. (As in the victims were randomly selected. The shooter didn’t randomly occur.) It is tragic. But it was a crime committed by one man, now dead, who targeted the innocent. The tipster is more than innocent. He is a hero. His eviction is not…

Last sentence went a little insane.

> Last sentence went a little insane

I'm drawing a moral analogy to mass murder, so the whole thing is going to tend towards the unhinged. But I'll stand by it. There is something sad in ordinary people bending to banal evil. Monsters being monsters is just horrific.

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by mothballed »

olalonde wrote: post #172
mc32 wrote: post #69

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People often fold during an interrogation/questioning unless they are career criminals and have been through the system and learn from their prior mistakes/luck.

Or unless they exercise their right to remain silent.

Yes but if you do it wrong then your silence can be used against you. And if you ask for a lawyer slightly incorrectly then that doesn't count either.

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by asveikau »

chrisweekly wrote: post #155
asveikau wrote: post #130

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I don't know much about the suspect, but I do know that people have been saying for years that they go into deep debt to get degrees, even in things that are supposed to be respected or in demand, and then it turns out there is actually no job market or success path for that degree. I assume the implication is it had something to do with this kind of frustration. (Though the suspect went to school two decades ago and…

"this guy's turn to violence makes me suspect he had some serious issues driving him, possibly in the mental health realm" You "suspect possible mental health issues"? Amigo, what further evidence could possibly be required?

I actually have tons of experience with people who suffer mental health issues, including psychotic illness. One thing that experience gives me is to be cautious about making armchair diagnosis from afar.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

MangoToupe wrote: post #158
650REDHAIR wrote: post #83

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That doesn't surprise me at all. Makes me furious, but it doesn't surprise me.

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The fuck are you talking about?

And I'm not just saying that as a reaction, I really want to know how you could have possibly interpreted the above comment to get that reaction. Please explain.

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #85
MangoToupe wrote: post #76

You'd think the washington post would have figured out how to turn off ads on somber articles by now

Oh how naive you are...

Its amazing people are downvoting this

These media companies love tragedies like this. It is what makes them the most money. Why would they disable ads on their most lucrative pages?

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by bofadeez »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #174
bofadeez wrote: post #169

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Last sentence went a little insane.

> Last sentence went a little insane I'm drawing a moral analogy to mass murder, so the whole thing is going to tend towards the unhinged. But I'll stand by it. There is something sad in ordinary people bending to banal evil. Monsters being monsters is just horrific.

Mass murder is about as far as you can get from banal. It's an extremely rare tragedy to experience. But we're talking about two things: one is a violent crime and one is a civil matter involving a squatter.

The building owners do have a right to occupy their own building, right? Or are you proposing we deny them their ownership as some kind of reward to the hero? That would amount to advocating that two wrongs make a right.

Calling the building owners 'assailants' for simply wanting to peacefully occupy their own building is quite insane.

Why not give him cash or a job or something else?

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