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I don't know anything about Gibbons or his suicide. Going off of what you said though, just because he failed at the (impossible) job he was hired to do and com
by enraged_camel 11y ago
I don't know anything about Gibbons or his suicide. Going off of what you said though, just because he failed at the (impossible) job he was hired to do and committed suicide doesn't mean Holmes "drove him to commit suicide." He may have been working under immense pressure. At the same time, he most likely knew the difficulty of his task when he accepted the job. He was, after all, a top biochemist. Right?
- jessaustin 11y agoProbably most people could justify a failed six-month project to themselves with, "you live, you learn". A decade of one's "most productive years" hurts quite a bit more. That decade looks a lot different in retrospect than it did when Holmes was selling it. I'm not saying I would have done the same, in the same position. Then again, if I were the type to feel such a failure so keenly, I'd be more likely to be a top biochemist in the first place. Both parties were adults. The point of this thread is that Holmes ought to be treated as such.