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Alan Turing was a fucking hero, and the British legal system drove him to suicide (lemmy.world)

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[–] Pieresqi@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Apple laced with cyanide is an accident ??

Damm what a wild times. I would though, with my quite non-normal, reasoning capabilities it would have been done intentionally to murder someone....

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Poor storage of laboratory chemicals is the alternative explanation. While plausible, suicide seems more likely to my eyes.

[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The story is at least semi-plausible, but Turing also still had friends in the right places (not enough to dig him out of the hole he got himself into with the local plod*) and there was a strong social taboo around suicide.

(* At the time there was good reason to believe that the end of the outlawing of homosexuality was just around the corner, so offering a genuine explanation was not necessarily Turing acting as such a naif as is often portrayed.)

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 7 points 5 days ago

Since Snow White, we all know this wasn't an accident.

[–] luves2spooge@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Some have speculated that it's the origin of the Apple logo but Jobs confirmed it wasn't.