I feel like there's nothing I can say that will do justice to this tragedy, but it seems worse to say nothing.
Aaron was a hero, and the world will be a darker place without him.
I feel sad. I almost always cry when I feel death in near mode. I didn't know Aaron except for his glorious deeds and LW posts, but it still feels awful.
I feel guilty because there are many more people I can't cry for. Aaron was a cool guy, but so are all the other people who die every day.
I feel angry at the world for being so terrible and destroying one of us forever. Death is unacceptable. Let's stop this, OK?
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One of us is no more.
He deserves a eulogy more eloquent than what I am capable of writing. Here's Cory Doctorow's, one of his long time friends.
It's a sad world in which you are being arrested and grand jury'd for downloading scientific journals and papers with the intent to share them.