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Should they? There is evidence in psychology studies about human reaction to catastrophes such as this. People often default to habitual behavior, possibly bec
by neuronic 7y ago
Should they?
There is evidence in psychology studies about human reaction to catastrophes such as this. People often default to habitual behavior, possibly because active decision making may be "disabled" as responsible regions of the brain get overwhelmed.
It reaches an extent where people are entirely incapable of unbuckling their seatbelts because a more common and therefore default mechanism for unbuckling is the one you would use in your car. And that works entirely different from the ones in planes.
https://consumerist.com/2016/07/12/why-are-there-seatbelt-demos-on-airplanes/ https://consumerist.com/2016/07/12/why-are-there-seatbelt-de...
- FabHK 7y agoYeah, they should be charged. The psychological studies you cite could then be entered by the defence and taken into account by the judge.
- evilolive 7y agoI'm reading this comment and I'm thinking : you're absolutely right, they should be! Yet. I have been in plane on fire and I did grab my backpack.. I didn't really act consciously, and somehow I had rationalized the order "everyone, get out now!" as some kind of random evacuation exercises. (European in my teens back then and one of my first flights)
- Xcelerate 7y ago> Yet. I have been in plane on fire Commercial? What happened?
- UnFleshedOne 7y agoBut maybe a few public court cases (even if everybody was acquitted in the end) would cause some people to remember not to grab the bags in the next accident. Maybe instead of pointless court cases, lots of publicity about correct behavior for the same effect.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago>Should they? Probably not for the reasons you mentioned. That doesn't mean it's not a damn good thing to say if you want to be popular on the internet. Hard-line opinions about Bad Things(TM) always win virtue points regardless of whether or not those opinions are well informed.
- ufmace 7y agoThis is more the truth IMO. They aren't consciously being jerks because they don't have time to have those kinds of thoughts. Which means that throwing criminal charges around months later won't help anything. The only way to change such behavior would be for people to practice serious everything's-on-fire drop-everything-and-run-NOW evacuations regularly. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that to happen. Okay, maybe having a short preflight safety briefing that people would actually pay attention to and that told people that would help. Or maybe just scare the crap out of everyone.
- bambax 7y agoReally? What about people paking in handicapped space? Is this because they don't have time to think clearly, or is it because they only carr about themselves? Why would people be different when exiting a plane, as when shopping?