I just looked him up to see how long he lived after his arrest - he survived until 2023.
I’m weirdly empathetic towards him, because I absolutely understand his points, though I obviously don’t agree with his methods. I can’t imagine being at the point of mailing bombs out, then having to watch the world go from 1995-2023. It got so much worse in all the ways he worried about. (I mean, I can’t actually imagine getting to that point at all, to be absolutely clear- I’m not suggesting the unabomber was a good guy or justified, but the things that drove him to murder indiscriminately drive me to despair)
Iirc, he was also subjected to a grossly inhumane study in college lead by the pregenitor of the CIA. I can’t remember the name off the top of my head, but that study, along with the prison and prisoner-shocking experiments, are classic examples of unethical research. It puts T.K’s later behavior into perspective I think.
But given how often they’ve managed to escape containment, the reality is the checks and balances on the system are woefully lacking.
See, e.g., Ted Kaczynski.
I just looked him up to see how long he lived after his arrest - he survived until 2023.
I’m weirdly empathetic towards him, because I absolutely understand his points, though I obviously don’t agree with his methods. I can’t imagine being at the point of mailing bombs out, then having to watch the world go from 1995-2023. It got so much worse in all the ways he worried about. (I mean, I can’t actually imagine getting to that point at all, to be absolutely clear- I’m not suggesting the unabomber was a good guy or justified, but the things that drove him to murder indiscriminately drive me to despair)
Iirc, he was also subjected to a grossly inhumane study in college lead by the pregenitor of the CIA. I can’t remember the name off the top of my head, but that study, along with the prison and prisoner-shocking experiments, are classic examples of unethical research. It puts T.K’s later behavior into perspective I think.