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>>>Damn right there are heroes.
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>>OTOH the investigation may find they cocked up and made the wrong decisions.
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>Wrong how?
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>I have been accused of finding the worm in any apple but are you so cynical you can't acknowledge an act or heroism? I could care less that he is American (Californian). IMO he behaved heroically, no less. There are 150-some who would surely agree.
Putting a plane into the Hudson without an environmental impact statement, ignoring the religious sensibilities of passengers who were asking God to help them, murdering geese and frightening passengers telling them they were going down without first counseling them ...
The list goes on. Lawsuits will follow.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
