Re:Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Et...
by close04 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:54AM
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The fact that airlines and governments are doing it anyway kind of says this is the right reaction. It's a precaution and you take it even if you don't have the full picture yet.
> People's lives are disrupted, sometimes catastrophically
Not unlike a what happens in a plane crash. As a passenger I'd rather pay more for a ticket or have a delayed/missed flight than accept the current risk of flying with this plane.
> The lives lost already are a sunk cost.
This isn't just cynicism or pragmatism, it's plain wrong. Another crash could happen at any time if the issue is indeed with the plane and your argument is "we can't bring the dead back so we might as well pile some more"?
> People's lives are disrupted, sometimes catastrophically
Not unlike a what happens in a plane crash. As a passenger I'd rather pay more for a ticket or have a delayed/missed flight than accept the current risk of flying with this plane.
> The lives lost already are a sunk cost.
This isn't just cynicism or pragmatism, it's plain wrong. Another crash could happen at any time if the issue is indeed with the plane and your argument is "we can't bring the dead back so we might as well pile some more"?