You’re clearly experiencing a lot of deep emotions of mourning over the loss of someone you’ve known long before. I apologize for accusing you of not knowing the goons, though I would expect someone so familiar with the site would have known the times that Lowtax mocked a woman who experienced multiple miscarriages, or of other similar instances. You’re responding disproportionately to my comment that he leaves behind his children, which is a tragedy. I make no moral judgments here, nor do I have any relish towards his death. I am simply observing the tragedy.

But yes, it is not in my place to judge what someone might do in the depths of utmost irrational personal pain. It would be engaging in the same callousness that goons are infamous for. Perhaps the most appropriate response to this situation is neither demonize nor lionize this man, but to simply recognize him for what he was- a flawed man who nonetheless changed the world and the very internet itself.

I now understand that you have truly been deeply affected by this loss. I wish you may find peace in this difficult time, as he has. Go with God.