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Atlantic Monthly article "Harvard and the making of the
Unabomber" and related class discussion
Note: Some of these questions are factual; others are matters of opinion,
speculation, or controversy.
- Whom did Kaczynski target and why?
- Nature of the psychological research in which Kaczynski participated
while a student at Harvard
- How might that experience have influenced Kaczynski?
- Ethics of that research
- Was Kaczynski really schizophrenic? mentally ill?
- How do we distinguish between strange or unconventional people and
people who are mentally ill?
- Why might some people be motivated to believe Kaczynski was mentally
ill?
- Would an insanity defense have been appropriate for Kaczynski?
- What makes siblings so different from one another? Why was Kaczynski
so different from his brother?
- Does Kaczynski's life tell us anything about the stability of human
personality over the lifetime?
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