How is your take also not a conspiracy theory?
Yes. What you are listing are coincidences.
Also understand that it is pretty rare for a whistleblower to have any future in the industry they are blowing the whistle on. That is throwing away years of schooling and often decades of experience. People tend to not do that if they aren’t already ill and not expecting a long life.
As for “if I die, it is not suicide”: Gonna get real dark for a moment. A lot of people are just looking for a way to make their life, or death, matter. Someone realizing they don’t want to put themselves and their family through a very long trial might very well use that as an excuse to take the easy way out.
All that said: Obviously these need to be investigated. But there is a big difference between investigating a suspicious death and immediately jumping to conspiracy.
Kedly@lemm.ee 6 months ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Well, for one thing, the definition of “conspiracy” is “a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act”. So… you can’t have a one person conspiracy.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
“Pinned it on the little guy”? It was suicide. There isn’t “blame” but he did it to himself by definition.
parpol@programming.dev 6 months ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
And suicide rates go up drastically when people are overly stressed and think they have no future. Sort of like… having contributed to incredibly dangerous air travel and burning bridges with an entire industry.
Similarly, like I said, a lot of whistleblowers are ill to begin with. Because, again, it is throwing away your future in an industry. It is a lot easier to consider that when your future on this planet is measured in years or even months.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
You don’t compare the stats to the population in its entirety. That’s like trying to calculate how dangerous it is for cyclists on the road by using the entire population. Most Americans don’t even own a bike.
parpol@programming.dev 6 months ago
You do for disease and suicide as it can happen to literally anyone.
If working for a specific company or being a whistleblower affects those statistics, the company should be held responsible anyway.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
No, the whole point is you don’t unless you’re specifically asking “how likely is it for anyone” which is not applicable here. That’s like me figure out how likely I am to die of diabetes within 24hrs when I don’t have diabetes. The answer is 0%, because I don’t have diabetes. You’re also denying the existence of more at-risk groups for things like suicide and illnesses. Different groups are more at risk than others.
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Better than 1 in a thousand, makes it seem less unlikely.
parpol@programming.dev 6 months ago
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
The SEC had 12k. Whistle blower tips in 2022 alone, so I’m going to say that less then 1000 cases in recorded history is a lie.