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That's a very excellent point about other critical participants. I appreciate the additional information! I didn't mean to sound like I thought that people die
by ksdale 11y ago
That's a very excellent point about other critical participants.
I appreciate the additional information! I didn't mean to sound like I thought that people die all the time in airplane crashes, merely that the median mistake is way less likely to affect a passenger, which is a major criteria for deciding to punish in other professions. Every mistake a lawyer or doctor makes can hurt clients or patients, respectively, whereas for most mistakes a pilot makes, no one will even know they made it (except if they self report, which they do a lot as you pointed out). And then I added in the ill-advised part about dying, by which I was really trying to communicate that the really bad outcomes are so bad that punishment is the last thing on people's minds.
- paol 11y ago> punishment is the last thing on people's minds I wish. Just off the top of my head, there was the swiss air traffic controller who was murdered by some relative of one of the victims of a mid-air collision [0], and the Brazilian government trying to put the surviving crew of another mid-air collision on trial [1]. Someone with better memory could surely think of more examples. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collis... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Transportes_A%C3%A9reos_Flight_1907 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Transportes_A%C3%A9reos_Fl...