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From Harvard graduate to the Unabomber

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He was an angry, murderous misanthrope who used that philosophy to justify his irrational feelings and ultimately actions.

No, I don't think humanity was better off pre-industry, in the era of lordship and peasantry, at best. If you have a problem with your car, you fix the problem, you don't throw your arms up and say "cars are a disaster and should have never been invented!"

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Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?

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Yeah. Probably had to worry about illegal snatch and grabs too. It's just ironic that he had to turn to autocrats who use much of the same tactics he warned about.

Of course our views on Russia in 2013 were quite different to what they are now, but we always kind of knew they were a mafia state with varying levels of dedication to "playing along" on the world stage.