You are insinuating physical violence (I will assume) which is never acceptable.
And in your case you made a mistake ie
'I put a chunk of money in there'
and further SBF had no control over this: 'because this all unfolded right after I got fired from my last job, when I really needed my liquid money to pay for things like "my mortgage" and "food".'
The takeaway for others is events happen in life. Could be someone's fault could be nobody's fault.
Having all your eggs (or no eggs) in one basket can and does lead often to disaster.
Sorry for the harsh way of putting this. What you are indicating is that you had no cushion and made the mistake of being lured by a high return and ignored potentially any downsides. (Gemini is not and did not claim to be an FDIC insured bank. Also crypto can and does lose value unlike money in a bank. Even if you had been able to get 7% return if crypto loses value you lose money. Same as or similar to a dividend paying stock).