| Like I might get murdered over it? Seriously, whistleblowing is a very high stress situation. Many whistleblowers have already been driven into behavior that they feel is unethical which results in https://www.openarms.gov.au/signs-symptoms/moral-injury which is one of the worst risk factors for severe psychological distress in soldiers returning from combat. Also whistleblowing endangers one's future career. I've had experiences with people who said the wrong things to the wrong people and created a lot of trouble for everyone including themselves and the people they told. Based on those experiences my wife and I are wary about people who aren't discreet, not just in N=1 social and business connections but also people who are a few steps removed. Sustainable organizations have some sense of inside and outside and an instinct to protect themselves. The form in the mafia is extreme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omert%C3%A0 but it is predictable that a person who's taken those steps will have difficulty finding employment. It's why we have rules like https://www.whistleblowers.org/whistleblower-protections-and... because a person in that situation probably will never get enough good paying job. That said, I think it is a very risky move to off somebody, efforts to cover it up might not work and would result in much more trouble than the organization started with. I remember a private eye from a non-fiction book from the 1970s who said conspiracies work like this; you should think of 2=1+1=11, and 3=1+1+1=111 and 4=1+1+1+1=1111 and such for the danger of a secret being revealed as more people are in on it. |