Tiger Attack

[Aristotle]

This issue is a few months old, isn't it?

Originally posted by Elvion

All of this aside, one thing that literally disgusts me about the US is how whenever ANYTHING happens people are looking for someone to blame. I think it is pathetic and petty to try and pin all the blame on one individual/institution. In Air Traffic Control we learn about something called the 'swiss cheese model' where basically there are NUMEROUS factors to any accident. No matter what you do there is always a 'hole' in it where something can go wrong. You line up 10 pieces of swiss cheese and usually everything gets covered. However, once in awhile, the holes line up and an accident happens.

I think you make 2 great points there.

1) We need to chill the heck out with our "blame game" obsession. Whenever something goes wrong, we crap the bed until someone's head is on a pike. This is totally out of control.

2) Swiss Cheese: That is so true. You can never make everything in life completely safe. You want a perfectly safe zoo? You've got it already. It is called the internet. You can watch animals over web cam and be totally safe. If you want to be up close and personal at all, you are taking on a risk. Steps are taken to make things as safe as possible, but if there is a "perfect storm" of unfortunate circumstances, tragedy can strike.

[Pae]

Originally posted by Aristotle
You want a perfectly safe zoo? You've got it already. It is called the internet. You can watch animals over web cam and be totally safe.

I don't know why but I found this incredibly funny. I think people at the hostel looked at me funny as I burst out laughing.

[Pae]

Originally posted by Elvion
All of this aside, one thing that literally disgusts me about the US is how whenever ANYTHING happens people are looking for someone to blame.

After rereading my post I want to clarify. MANY people and MANY nations are like this. My own included. US in this case is not heads and tails above the others. Canada acts very much the same way. We just lack the civil-suit legal system to back it up and blow it really out of proportion.

[Savaric]

I think the idea is that his behavior was influenced by his "intake" of drugs, namely alcohol and pot. It's generally held that drugs cause people to do things they would normally not do. However, the people take the drugs of their own volition in the first place, so they take responsibility for what happens. You cannot blame the drugs and argue they made you do it.

So hey, maybe if the dumbass hadn't been drinking and smoking dope he might not have been teasing the animal. That pissed me off because I like big cats and it was put down because of his actions. It reminds me of a skit from Jackass. Kid deserves a darwin award.