Originally posted by whatukno
Once a person turns from argument to violence they have lost.
They didn't lose, diplomacy lost. When a person reaches that point, they have nothing left to lose. It's not a game where there are winners, and
losers, it's serious, referring to it as if it's a game where there are winners and losers just trivializes the whole incident. When everything is
on the line, it's survival. His survival came to an end before he got into the airplane. He was dead before he hit the starter switch. It really
doesn't change a thing if someone thinks he's a martyr, asshole, lunatic, selfish, etc... Not. One. Thing. All that's happening now is
arguments over semantics in crude attempts to make sense of it all.
For those that are slow, here's the rundown.
The IRS wants to take as much money from the guy as possible.
The guy wants to keep as much money as possible.
The IRS uses a set of codes that is labyrinthine, burdensome, and impossible to completely know.
The guy fails against the IRS, and crumbles under it's codes.
In the mean time he's lost everything else he's worked for in his life.
Guy with nothing left to lose torches his house, and flies an airplane into an IRS office.
That's it.
I'm sure some will see that as oversimplified, but I'm not going to comb over his so-called 'manifesto' looking for secret messages since I,
evidently, do not have the proper decoder ring.