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Whistleblowing, Sabotage & Moral Distress

Separate concepts for discussing disclosure, interference with systems, and distress about perceived moral transgression—with limits on what the cited research establishes.

Source-checked adaptationUpdated October 24, 2026Version 1.0
Reality and fiction, clearly marked. Evidence sections describe the sources; game sections describe authored characters and events. Source-checked does not mean reviewed by a clinician or theologian. Read the evidence-status guide.
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01 Research question

How can disclosure, interference with systems, and moral distress be discussed without treating them as the same action or a diagnosis?

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02 Overview

Whistleblowing, sabotage, and moral injury are separate concepts. An ethical conflict, action taken in response to it, and a person’s distress do not automatically establish a clinical condition.

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03 What the sources address

Litz and colleagues present a preliminary model and intervention strategy concerning moral injury in war veterans. Its military context matters: it is not a direct study of corporate engineers, architects, or whistleblowers. [1]

Miceli and Near’s organizational book addresses whistleblowing as a separate subject. The linked bibliographic record identifies the work; it does not establish a particular psychological outcome in an individual. [2]

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04 Actions & experiences

Disclosure of perceived wrongdoing and unauthorized interference with a system should be described separately. Moral-injury research offers a lens for discussing perceived transgression and responsibility, not a label that automatically follows from either action.

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05 Scope & limits

Responses vary widely. A conflict of values does not prove acute moral injury, and neither a fictional scene nor a bibliography substitutes for clinical assessment. Claims about outcomes among corporate whistleblowers require research actually studying that population.

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06 Reading the sources

The preliminary clinical model and organizational book have different purposes. Keep each source’s scope visible, and distinguish authored motivation from a finding about a studied population.

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07 Sources & further reading

  1. Moral injury and moral repair in war veterans: A preliminary model and intervention strategy
    Brett T. Litz and colleagues · 2009 · Clinical Psychology Review 29(8), 695–706
    Preliminary military-context model · DOI 10.1016/j.cpr.2009.07.003
  2. Blowing the Whistle: The Organizational and Legal Implications for Companies and Employees
    Marcia P. Miceli & Janet P. Near · 1992 · Lexington Books
    Organizational book · Bibliographic record; not a clinical case assessment
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08 Research record

Adapted from the reviewed Mira Sloane canonical master. Website adaptation: October 24, 2026. Version 1.0. This is educational research for fiction, not a clinical evaluation. Character applications appear separately.

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Mira Sloane (Sloan)

Mira Sloane (Sloan)

Character

Her discovery of concealed deletion routines creates an authored crisis of complicity, guilt, and responsibility. This is not a clinical assessment; her routing changes and later disclosures are distinct actions.