Comment by tptacek

Yes. Repetitive, I know, but the standard reminder applies: we are talking about a man who deliberately attempted to down a commercial jetliner, and almost succeeded. There's no rationalizing to do here.

People cheerleading Kaczynski tend not to know this, and I think that's because for the most part they're not really engaged with the story; rather, it's just much more interesting, for Internet conversation purposes, if there are buried intellectual gems to unearth from Kaczynski's project. Because of the powerful bias towards "fun to talk about", there will always be people around to say "Mail bombs are mostly always bad, but what about Iraq, maybe he was right about some things."