I'd much rather see someone who did the right thing get celebrated. There are so many possible other routes he could have taken that all involve less integrity

I'd much rather see someone who did the right thing get celebrated. There are so many possible other routes he could have taken that all involve less integrity (or extremely harmful integrity, like suicide, which he admits to having briefly considered), and some measure of public harm. It's also such a nuanced issue, with bolts vs welds and arguably no one having done anything wrong individually, that I can't imagine a way to explain this to the public that people could understand and be like "yea that makes sense" and proceed to act rationally. Add to that the fact that there's so much probability involved in the potential path and strength of any storm and I'm not sure a member of the general public could reach a rational conclusion. Of course we'll never know, but the point is that the man did the right thing, and of course we should celebrate that.