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Kaczynski is obviously in no way a philosophical vegan, he has more supporters among primitivist anti-vegans.

The main reason for the creation of this page was simply to harness the sortable tables function to create the most comprehensive sortable list of books found in his cabin.

As well, this page will be used as an unironic attempt to try and call him out, for the few people who need to hear it, so that fewer otherwise productive activists fall down the eco-purist rabbit hole. However, that doesn't mean we're completely against platforming his writing alongside critiques.

Finally, here’s a timeline of key events that I think led to Ted Kaczynski becoming violent & events in which he could have been stopped with either a compassionate ear for his guilty feelings or a better police investigation:

• Separated from parents as a baby or his parents inability to cope when their child misbehaved, so to blame his behavior on this experience.
• Moved forward a year at school whilst failing to make sure he maintained friendships, rather than taking a year off to travel with family.
• Parents/teachers/counselors failing to talk through his desire for escape in primitive life as a desire to escape bullying, earlier education in politics.
• Attending Harvard a year early without taking the time to travel and explore the world.
• Unwittingly joining psych experiments that would be used by the CIA for developing torture techniques, where ideally people would have voted in parties outlawing these practices before they ever happened.
• Projected his feelings of inadequacy onto women for not knowing how to start a relationship with them.
• Inability to discuss his sexual fantasies of becoming a woman in order to get to be intimate with a woman to a councilor. Coming away with stronger suicidal ideation, as well as now the first desire to kill through a murder suicide, due to his shame at not being able to find a relationship turning into hatred at society for regimenting his life and making him this way.
• Kaczynski showed a letter to his brother, parents and romantic interest that he planned ‘violence of a serious nature’ against this romantic interest who had broken off their romance, but no steps were taken to either get him help or report him. And journal entries later revealed that he brought with him a knife in a paper bag.
• Kaczynski proposed founding an organization dedicated to stopping federal aid to scientific research, thereby preventing the “ceaseless extension of society’s powers. He sent this essay, similar to the manifesto he’d later write to a few politicians and would often write anti-technology essays to newspapers and favorite authors. If the FBI had put more focused callouts for information, then one of these people may have tipped off the FBI sooner.
• Felt shame later about his sadism towards animals.
• Briefly felt shame about having crippled the arm of a man who was an airline pilot.
• Felt shame about the innocent people he would have killed on an airliner he attempted to blow up.

Ted Kaczynski's seized possessions

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• JCM Book III Bonus Chapter Unabomber's Books
• US Vs Kaczynski (2006) - Books
• US Vs Kaczynski (2006) - Other Items

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A Bizarre Window Into History

>April 17, 2001: McVeigh Declines Animal Rights Group Request to Make Last Meal Vegetarian > >Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, whose execution is rapidly approaching (see January 16, 2001), politely declines a request by the animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) that he make his last meal a vegetarian one. In a handwritten letter responding to PETA’s request, McVeigh writes that he sympathizes with the group’s cause, but will not make that request. PETA issued the request through the prison warden, stating that McVeigh’s last meal should have no meat because “Mr. McVeigh should not be allowed to take even one more life.” The warden refused, and PETA sent the request directly to McVeigh. > >“Truth is, I understand your cause—I’ve seen slaughter houses myself—but I still believe in reasonable taking and eating of game (as an outdoorsman and hunter),” he writes. “My one main problem with the ‘veg’ movement is this (besides the fact I’m a libertarian): Where do you draw the line and what standard is used to define that line?” McVeigh questions whether “grubs/worms/etc.” suffer. He also argues that “plants are alive, too. They react to stimuli (including pain); have circulatory systems, etc.… To me, the answer is as the Indians believed: respect for the life you take to sustain yourself, but come to terms with your place in the ‘food chain.’” > >He congratulates the organization on the media attention it has garnered as a result of the request, writing: “You should have seen the local editorial response to your letter. You gotta remember, this is meat-eatin’ farm country; still, good job getting the attention to your cause (like protesting dead rats on [the popular television reality show] ‘Survivor’).” McVeigh closes by saying he cannot “sustain a prolonged intellectual debate on the subject, as my time is short” but suggests the organization should contact his friend Ted Kaczynski, an inmate of the Florence, Colorado, “supermax” prison that until recently housed McVeigh, whom McVeigh says would be more likely to take up the vegetarian issue.