Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit: History Since the End of History Highlight

It didn’t matter that Aaron, precocious until his suicide at twenty-six, worked within the law’s loopholes and never for personal gain; the prosecutors treated him not just like a criminal, but like an enemy. He was the kind of brilliant, harmless gadfly that liberal democracies are supposed to celebrate, and the state bullied him to death.4 I don’t expect better treatment than Aaron got, I don’t think any of us should.