From the Daily Mail, some charming scenes of civilizational breakdown from the fatal capsizing of the Costa Concordia: Forget women and children first. Burly crew men led the race for the lifeboats:
Men refused to prioritise women, expectant mothers and children as they pushed themselves forward to escape. Crew ignored their passengers – leaving ‘chefs and waiters’ to help out. [. . .]
‘I was standing by the lifeboats and men, big men, were banging into me and knocking the girls. It was awful. There was a total lack of organisation. There was no one telling people where to go.
‘And when we finally got into a lifeboat, people, grown men, were trying to jump into the boat. I thought, if they land in here we are going to capsize.
That woman had some very old-school expectations of "grown men," it seems. And special treatment for pregnant women? Based on what?
Frenchwoman Isabelle Mougin, 38, who is five months pregnant, wept as she described her battle to get off the sinking ship with her husband. Interviewed in hospital, she said the captain refused to let them leave the vessel, even though she pleaded that she was a priority case because of her pregnancy.Duty, honor, and self-sacrifice are so last-century. But the captain is under arrest. So there's that.
‘We were stuck. He told us we couldn’t get off. I thought my baby was going to die – I thought we were all going to die. The captain just went, he just left the boat, left us there, I just cannot believe it.
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Update: It's reported that there's an audio recording of the Coast Guard ordering the captain back on board the ship. Transcript here.
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Wow! Don't know if I should laugh or cry!
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"That woman had some very old-school expectations of "grown men," it seems. And special treatment for pregnant women? Based on what?"
ReplyDelete- Why would they want special treatment? Haven't we all been told a myriad of times by our teachers, news media, tv shows, movies etc... that females are equal with males in all aspects - are not different or feminine/sweet/the weaker/fairer sex?
And after all... unborn human beings are nothing more than unwanted growths like tumors right? So why give them any preference?
When everything is equal and unimportant... the old standby of self preservation/selfishness/ everyman/woman/it for him/her/it - self prevails....
Pathetic immoral education's focus on hedonism and selective more equal racial/sexual groups plays a large role - if only people would evaluate what rabid feminism has done to our society...
Exactly what I was getting at. Thanks for your comment.
DeleteOne word- Italians... To start with, how in the heck to you manage to hit a rock that has been in the same place for a 100,000 years? Was he aiming?
ReplyDeleteSecond, the reports indicated the crew took over and mutinied as the Captain refused to give the abandon ship command for an hour, even though it was apparent the ship was going over. (But he managed to get off quick enough, which is frankly beyond my understanding as a man, retired cop and father.)
Third, your point, as your poster's, is spot on. The concept of duty and honor and sacrifice have been bred and educated out of the vast majority of "civilized" men and women. (and not by accident either) With the Titanic, one of the men who escaped, if I remember correctly, was so shunned by the society he never fully recovered. It wasn't whether he could do any good staying, in fact he helped save a number of people and only jumped in when there was no other person left, it was that he left in the first place. On the other hand, the good Captain did go down with the ship, an obvious choice of manhood and common sense as he would have been tried and convicted of sailing the ship carelessly.
Oh by the way, the "Women and children first" policy was just that, an accepted policy understood and agreed to by the crew, the cruise line and the people who sailed. Imagine trying to get that policy through in today's world!
What troubles me is that the ship was obviously in peril and people still died with help and rescue close at hand. It shows just how weak people can be and docile (waiting for instruction as what to do while literally dying in place)they are when given the choice between making their own decision or waiting to be told what to do.
Heck, it didn't really sink, it kinda rolled over and sat down. Just get on top and wait until somebody comes and gets you. How hard is that?