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This guy was willing to do it for free. Imagine if there was a bounty.
When society gets to the point where you will die if you don't do anything .... or you will die if you do something ....
Eventually people realize that they will be punished, threatened or endangered no matter what they do or don't do, some people will come to the conclusion that they would rather go down fighting.
If you're going to get screwed doing nothing, some would rather go out on a blaze of glory because they no longer have anything to lose.
Falling Down was in my head this week. The number of people in the US that are close to it is so high, it's barely fringe. Ironically Trump might just trigger a revolution when he tries to clamp down.