"Morgans" wrote in message
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If your family was on that plane, would you be angry? Damn straight, you
would be.

I don't know. Maybe I would, maybe I wouldn't. I've experienced what I
consider to be tragic loss in the past without feeling anger at anyone.

But that's not the question here. Andrew's family wasn't on the plane, and
his anger is misplaced, even if it could be understandable (albeit
irrational) on the part of people who had relationships with the people who
died.

Intentional does not have anything to do whether anger is justified.

If you are talking about anger directed at the pilots, then of course it
does. Anger may be understandable, but justified implies that there is some
rational basis for the anger.

It may turn out that there is indeed some rational basis for the anger, but
for the moment there is absolutely no information that would support that
conclusion.

These
were two professional pilots that made a mistake that is without reason

How do you know that the mistake was made without reason?

, a kind of mistake not in any way permitted for professional pilot.

Are there mistakes that are permitted for professional pilots? What
mistakes would those be?

If they
had survived, I would expect that they would never be allowed to again
hold
an ATP.

Unless there's new news I haven't heard, one did survive. I guess we'll see
if he loses his pilot certificate or not. How that's relevant to the
question of justified anger, I don't know. Maybe you could explain it.

For what ever reason, they did not have the right stuff, that day. The
right stuff is absolutely essential, every time, for an ATP to do his
thing,
and if the mistake were survived this time, you can not know if they would
make a critical mistake in the future. We, the "riding public," have a
right to expect better than that.

I'd agree you have a right to expect to not be killed on an airline flight,
or on any flight for that matter. As a society, we tend to value our
expectation that we won't be killed.

But in what way does that justify anger against at least one person who
suffered the same dire consequences that all the passengers did, and who for
all we know was doing the very best they were capable of in their situation
to perform their duties?

I know...I'm just spitting in the wind here. Perhaps on Usenet more than
anywhere else, but certainly in society as a whole, people LOVE to judge.
They LOVE to make accusations and pretend they know EXACTLY what the score
is, long before they really do. Still, that doesn't make it right, and when
you and others insist on going around doing so, I'm going to speak up if I'm
around to see it.

Pete