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I should have specified - important/at-risk people who suddenly fall from a window, especially after they did something the country they were in doesn't like.
by declaredapple 3y ago
I should have specified - important/at-risk people who suddenly fall from a window, especially after they did something the country they were in doesn't like.
> Statistics aren't tracked to this level by most crime reports because it is so overwhelmingly rare for someone to be killed this way.
The real issue here is we aren't comparing the statistics of the "average joe".
For random-person we can predict the reason for their fall was unlikely to be state-level foul play - in fact near zero chance of it.
The likely hood of state-level foul play is substantially higher for spies, rich oligarchs with unpopular opinions, journalists, etc. How much higher I have no idea.
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Anyway my point was the lethality of the cause of death is really not what anyone is interested in. When spies, rich oligarchs with unpopular opinions, journalists, etc die shortly after they did something particularly provoking I don't think people care about the lethality of the incident as much as the cause.
- kube-system 3y agoYes, when people work in sensitive positions with the potential to make enemies, they have a higher risk of death from those causes. However, it's also easy to fall into the fallacious trap of defining people solely by their profession. People who have sensitive jobs and also do other risky activities in their spare time incur those risks in addition to the risks they have due to their profession. In fact, some successful people with enemies engage in more risky activities because they can afford to do so. Rich people dying in general aviation accidents is a pretty frequent pattern, for example.