After the recent death of Steve Jobs, I found it hard to imagine that a man so rich, so powerful and incredibly intelligent had died of cancer which would have could be treated! How can anyone be so intelligent as to question the authority of doctors? The answer is simply stubbornness. Steve Job believed not only that he would beat his cancer, but that he would find a cure! With so many resources at his disposal, this should have been an easy task. It's safe to say that with all the money he had, doctors and scientists would have worked overtime to find a cure. How could Ted Kaczynski, such a brilliant man, graduated from an Ivy League school, one day become the man who terrorizes people all over the United States? Unfortunately, Steve Jobs and Ted Kaczynski are just two examples of people whose pride put their lives or the lives of others in danger. Thesis: Youth, The Unabomber, Prison. Known to many as the Unabomber, Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. According to Paul Ferguson in his article “Ted Kaczynski: Evil Man, or Tortured Soul? featured on CNN, as a child, Kaczynski spent much of his time in the hospital when he was diagnosed with an allergic reaction that caused him to break out in hives all over his body. According to Ferguson, the hospital staff who photographed Ted said he looked terrified. In their paper "An Adlerian Analysis of the Unabomber," Amy M. Leeper and her colleagues at the University of Texas explain that "Ted's childhood was spent largely with his mother, who devoted all of her time to the education and care of her two children. son” (169-70). In their article “The Search for the Unabomber,” Nancy Gibbs and Sam Allis suggest that Ted had the mind of a genius. According to “......... middle of paper ......What reasoning can be used to explain this type of behavior? How could such intelligent men go against proven facts? What we can learn from this strange behavior is that no one knows everything. These men who had such a bright future ahead of them used only their judgment to completely destroy their lives. All for nothing. This is simply pride! Perhaps there is a fine line between genius and madness. Works Cited Ferguson, Paul. “Ted Kaczynski: Bad Man or Tortured Soul? Time Warner, 2000. web. November 16, 2010. Gibbs, Nancy and Sam Allis. “Finding the Unabomber.” Time International (South Pacific Edition) 16 (1996): 24. MasterFILE Premier. Internet. November 15, 2011 Leeper, Amy M., Stephanie Carwile and R. John Huber. “An Adlerian Analysis of the Unabomber.” Journal of Individual Psychology 58.2 (2002): 169-76. Premier Academic Research. Internet. November 15. 2011.