&gt; They don&#x27;t care about analyzing the likely outcome of the case had he lived, it&#x27;s brought up to share anger and outrage over the injustice.<p>Precisely. He didn&#x27;t have to kill himself, and if he&#x27;d put a bit more forethought into what he was doing, we&#x27;d probably be discussing this in a thread around an interview with him rather than with Ms. Elbakyan. But nobody wants to hear that, because it detracts from the story of this generation&#x27;s Bobby Fischer.