this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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but no one killed him. he died from a stroke, and the clot wasn't caused by injury.
My dad just had surgery to clear a massive DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis)... and it seems to be semi-hereditary for my family so I listened to the doctor pretty closely. If he had exerted himself in any way that broke off even a little bit of the clot, he would have died... Would it be the injuries fault or the clots fault?
Anyone who solely blames an injury that dislodges the clot is missing the forest for the trees. In my dad's case, it was a ticking time bomb for literally anything to dislodge it. Could have been as simple as walking that could have done it. They immobilized his leg immediately. In this case, for an injury the day prior... to be the dislodge event is a bit odd. It would have been pretty immediate from my understanding, it's likely the injury loosened it, and some other inane event dislodged it completely. The clot already existed... and many other events could have triggered it to dislodge.
If this is the only individual that can be used as the example... I'm not onboard personally.