Yeah, negligence is a long way from intent to kill. Nobody from Boeing said, "Hey, let's design the 737 MAX so it will kill a bunch of people!" You have to be really careful about prosecuting this sort of thing. As long as accidents are treated as accidents, people who were involved in the process will (usually) tell you want happened an…
Yeah, negligence is a long way from intent to kill. Nobody from Boeing said, "Hey, let's design the 737 MAX so it will kill a bunch of people!" You have to be really careful about prosecuting this sort of thing. As long as accidents are treated as accidents, people who were involved in the process will (usually) tell you want happened and what needs to be done to improve it. Once you start throwing around criminal charges, people who could fix the problem will instead shut up and lawyer up. Countries that criminalize accidents generally have poor safety records, for this reason.
No liability accident reporting is the same policy we have in healthcare. As a nurse, we’re asked to report medication errors to help prevent future errors. The problem is there’s been a perfect algorithm in place for decades to prevent errors. We bypass that algorithm for our convenience (laziness) and make errors. We don’t report it because we know it was 100% our fault.
Yeah, negligence is a long way from intent to kill. Nobody from Boeing said, "Hey, let's design the 737 MAX so it will kill a bunch of people!" You have to be really careful about prosecuting this sort of thing. As long as accidents are treated as accidents, people who were involved in the process will (usually) tell you want happened and what needs to be done to improve it. Once you start throwing around criminal charges, people who could fix the problem will instead shut up and lawyer up. Countries that criminalize accidents generally have poor safety records, for this reason.
No liability accident reporting is the same policy we have in healthcare. As a nurse, we’re asked to report medication errors to help prevent future errors. The problem is there’s been a perfect algorithm in place for decades to prevent errors. We bypass that algorithm for our convenience (laziness) and make errors. We don’t report it because we know it was 100% our fault.