Her name turned up in an announcement for an award she received in 1999, for "quietly working behind the scenes to further a cause".
We're talking about internet "sock puppets" here: in other words, people pretending to be someone else on the internet in order to win an argument – or, in the case of Amina Arraf, Syrian lesbian blogger, to further a cause.
He isn't a man who kills to further a cause like John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald or the political protagonist of Sartre's Les mains sales, nor is he a cheap hitman, embedded in the underworld like the two wise-cracking lowlifes who come for the big Swede in Hemingway's The Killers.
Either way, using someone's grief to further a cause risks leaving the wellbeing of mourners behind, and I've found through these past years of reporting that the most empowering thing they can do, after being expected to mourn publicly, is to heal publicly, too.
Whether it is the public against the bankers in Wall Street and around St Paul's, or the local communities against the police in London, the bravado of fighting against the establishment and getting something back from "the man" can sometimes takeover and we get carried away, inflicting harm on fellow citizens while failing to further a cause.
Performance measures make clear: If you want to further a cause, donate your profits.
When millennials -- rich with creative talent -- exercise their skills to further a cause they care about, they are not only contributing social impact, but they are developing their own skills and portfolios.
"If Twitter starts banning people who are affiliated with organizations that use or promote violence against civilians to further a cause, that's tantamount to prohibiting certain opinions: a very new policy for a platform that used to be known as the 'free speech wing of the free speech party,'" Benesch said.
