Science Memes

9989 readers

944 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
Keep it rooted (on topic).
No spam.
Infographics welcome, get schooled.

Sister Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

2221

Never Forget (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

172 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i would say jstor are cunts, but actually it's the US government that were being cunts here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Law Enforcement and the Justice System have every responsibility to enforce laws as they were written, JSTOR pressed charges and the US Government offered Auron a plea deal to reduce his sentence to 6 months.

Definitely an argument about the inadequacy of US Healthcare to be made here, though. Auron clearly could have used some counseling.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought there was a prosecutor who pursued this beyond all reasonable bounds, making Aaron's life a living hell and driving him to suicide?

[+] [email protected] -19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Well if a Psychologist had helped him through it maybe he could have turned around and sued that prosecutor into disbarment.

EDIT: People are downvoting this, but TBH I wouldn't kill myself over a 35 year sentence much less the 6 months in the plea deal this guy got. Wouldn't consider it for a single moment. He had agency in his own actions.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yeah and maybe that prosecutor is tangentially responsible for his suicide now.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

and the US government was almost definitely trying to make an example out of him: literally anybody who read the case details whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Only prosecuting district attorneys can chose to bring a crimial charge to court.*

*except in north carolina... for some reason they actually let victims prosecute.