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It's still stange to me that killing 1 person means that a person goes to prison immediately, but after a manslaughter of hundreds of people the people who did
by xiphias2 7y ago
It's still stange to me that killing 1 person means that a person goes to prison immediately, but after a manslaughter of hundreds of people the people who did it are still making decisions for the company and prison isn't even discussed.
- pjc50 7y agoIntent matters, and negligence is very socially constructed; our leniency depends on seeing how easily we could make the same mistake. Road negligence is the big one; even surprisingly gross negligence that results in the death of a non-negligent cyclist or pedestrian will be treated really leniently. I wouldn't put too much store in these emails. For every successful, safe product there is probably also an email somewhere complaining about how badly it is managed. What's needed is a specific link about the specific problem found in the parts of the system that actually caused crashes.
- saiya-jin 7y agoYou still often get few years of jail if you kill cyclist or pedestrian even if its completely not your fault and you did everything by the rules. Some heads definitely should roll to prison at Boeing
- pjc50 7y agoWhere? Do you have some example news stories?
- xiphias2 7y agoIntent of going against regulations was clear in this case: somebody decided that regulators shouldn't know the details of how the MCAS used only 1 sensor. There's a reason why the relationship between FAA and Boeing got worse after these important details surfaced.
- superfist 7y ago"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic"
- lol2143651 7y agoIt's generally quite hard to assign sufficient culpability to individuals in this sort of situation.