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comment by ecib
ecib  ·  4324 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The End of Ragequitting

I had pretty much the same reaction. He doesn't know (or certainly didn't meaningfully speak to) how possible clinical depression as an illness could have been a factor. Also, as you pointed out, he rhetorically built up the unfathomable enormity of the forces against Aaron, then essentially summarily dismissed them (without even really defining them) by calling Aaron a cop-out and saying he should have lived up to a higher ideal because he chose the 'life of an activist.'

Sorry Jeff, that you had to settle for the hero you were given rather than the one that would have gone the extra mile for ya. Don't make 'em like they used to, right?