What does it take to be a whistle blower? It would be easy to just tow the line and keep your nose clean. It takes guts to be a whistle blower. Seeing things at work which are not right vexes the conscience of the whistle blower and this reaches a point which he can no longer tolerate. He has to tell the world. Sometimes the whistle blower is hailed as a hero and sometimes he is called a spy. Would you have the guts to be a whistle blower?
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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