RE: Duck boat sinks.... and OP/ED
July 20, 2018 at 1:59 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2018 at 2:15 pm by Brian37.)
(July 20, 2018 at 11:36 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(July 20, 2018 at 11:25 am)Brian37 Wrote: Not the point, over 36 years the power is lopsided now. Regulations are not bans on the private sector. I am so fucking sick of the charge that regulations always hurt business. Regulations are why we have traffic lights too. If we left it up to the GOP and never challenged business we'd be a third world country.
So you will opportunistically trod any disaster underfoot as a soap box from atop which you would advocate your political view, regardless of whether your view could even in theory have prevented or mitigated the disaster.
You come across very much like the religious fanatic to whom anything is evidence of his god. To you it seems any disaster is basis to shriek your view is right.
Yea, that is the same ignorance as when climate change deniers ignore the long term data, and say, "today was cold so therefore climate change is a hoax".
LONG TERM you cannot keep advocating speed and at the same time ditch oversight. It may be great for short term profits, but the faster you go and especially without regulations, the more things can go wrong.
Apollo 13 did not get back safely without redundancy. In fact, the movie does a disservice to the reality of the real event. The movie would have you believe that everything was on the fly, when the majority of the "what ifs" that did go wrong, were PLANNED OUT PRIOR TO THE LAUNCH.
There is no fucking excuse for that duck boat to go out. PERIOD! Even a non boat captain can watch the local weather and see the high waves and wind speed and decide not to take their private non commercial boat out. Even with open burn of leaves in your yard, all you have to do IS FUCKING LOOK ON THE WEB.
Knowing how many times as a delivery driver during snow storms my pizza chain managers PRESSURED ME to take risks and how many times I slid off the road and almost KILLED MYSELF, I can very easily understand that the Duck Boat driver still did it because he didn't want to get fired.
It is also the SAME bullshit mentality that caused the Hawaiian tour boat to get too close to the volcano lava and the explosion caused a hot soccer ball sized rock through the canopy of the boat injuring several and one critically.
