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Or perhaps even more meaningful was he was put on mind-altering drugs at 5. Not sure why people believe this won't have unintended consequences. https://archive.ph/n5mUM
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Suspect, victim in Redmond stabbing both worked at Microsoft
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Re: Suspect, victim in Redmond stabbing both worked at Microsoft
#32Re: Suspect, victim in Redmond stabbing both worked at Microsoft
#33More details; victim is recovering: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/microsoft-employee-improvin...
Looking at his website it seems like the attacker was a mental break looking for a place to happen. His entire about me was the embodiment of the "I am an atheist" meme.
Feel bad for the victim, couldn't imagine just going about my day and then getting stabbed out of nowhere.
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#35I find it unlikely that somebody randomly shanks someone a dozen times just because of stress, in a workplace environment. Surely these two gentleman either knew each other and something had happened, OR the attacker knew the victim and there was some sort of issue, romantic or something like that to where he would've been angry enough to try and kill this other man. Of course Microsoft is going to say "Oh, they didn…
If the web page linked in another comment is authentic, the attacker was in a very bad mental state. I don’t think we can completely rule out previous contact, and the attacker was unhappy with his team members, but random chance also seems possible. I lean towards authentic because a) the journal document is much too long to have been produced quickly, b) the text isn’t lifted from other sources, and c) the website…
Making Holocaust video games isn't exactly non-extremist.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think there's anything wrong with identifying the suspect and learning information about them. Why not?
Because it encourages mob justice.
This is absurd. Society can't function if knowing things about suspects is off limits. What are we children?
There's laws against crime of the sort you imply. We know the guy did something and that he exists. If people can't handle learning details about someone's background without doing something illegal, those people deserve to be behind bars too...not dictating information censorship for the rest of us.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Honest question: Besides the game being being distasteful, what is it about the game that requires they should have been fired or not hired?
Empirically, there is a high propensity of Anne Frank simulator fans to also stab their coworkers, which is usually discouraged.
I mean… I can see HN arguing how it’s a great free speech endeavor to turn a Holocaust victim into a „fun“ adventure game, and how doing so says absolutely nothing about the creator.
But here we have pretty good evidence that it DOES say something about the creator.
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#38That about me page is pretty cringe.
Praising "Adolf Hitler's bolstering of Nazi Germany in the 1930's" is a little bit more than cringe.
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Honest question: Besides the game being being distasteful, what is it about the game that requires they should have been fired or not hired?
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It’s easy to say now that this was a sign of mental illness, but that’s confirmation bias.
Plenty of people have done or said insensitive stuff, especially when young, without being violent or mentally ill. Also we don’t really know anything about this particular case.
The other option you mention is they perhaps grew up in a red state? Do you suggest this as a legitimate reason for firing a person?
Re: Suspect, victim in Redmond stabbing both worked at Microsoft
#40I find it unlikely that somebody randomly shanks someone a dozen times just because of stress, in a workplace environment. Surely these two gentleman either knew each other and something had happened, OR the attacker knew the victim and there was some sort of issue, romantic or something like that to where he would've been angry enough to try and kill this other man. Of course Microsoft is going to say "Oh, they didn…
> "just because of stress"
Where is that narrative coming from? It doesn't seem to be what the article is pushing.
The perp seems like a nutjob who had a violent melt down, no need for a grander narrative. This sort of thing happens thousands of times a year all across the country, the only reason this case is on HN is because of who they worked for. If this were about a Redmond retail worker stabbing another, in the same town, it wouldn't be here.