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Cultural factors are given significant weight in air accident investigation and safety. For instance, the Korean Air disaster was put down to a cultural subser

• pavel_lishin 3y ago
  It's also been an issue during wartime: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/14/johnezard https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/14/johnezard
• stcredzero 3y ago
  the Korean Air disaster was put down to a cultural subservience to authority Here's my anecdote. My mother was born in Korea. At one point, she literally told me that it doesn't matter if I you are right, your duty to your elders comes first. (EDIT: I think it bears saying: A huge number of family arguments in Korean-American families have something to do with parents ruining their credibility with intelligent children by saying such things.) Air safety is important enough to be given a woke pass! Fidelity to objective truth is far too important and fundamental to ever be compromised on. In fact, I would go so far to say, that "compromises" on fidelity to objective truth are a red flag, that some form of power corruption is going on. Another form of corruption, is a claim to be the ultimate or sole arbiter of truth. No being who is subject to the Laws of Thermodynamics and Landauer's Limit should be able to claim they should be treated as effectively omniscient. No one is inherently right. The best we can do, is to always strive to be less wrong.