Thursday, April 12, 2012

"The Unsinkable Ship"

In Captain Smith's case, there are limit's on forgiving him. His selfishness and greediness caused many deaths that didn't have to happen. Then again, you can only point fingers at the captain for so long. What about the ships builders', Harland and Wolff who called the ship "unsinkable"? The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats, that's only enough for 1/3 of the ships' passengers. Isn't that the fault of the builders and engineers? If I would have been a relative of someone who died on the Titanic, it would have been hard for me to forgive the captain, builders, or anyone involved. It's one thing to die because it's your time or old age, but to see your whole family diving into the freezing water as you drift away on one of the lifeboats to safety, you would definetely have some hard feelings. The captain should have been smarter and made better decisions, so more people could've been saved. But I think the real blame still lies in the hands of the builders. The didn't have enough life boats, and called the ship unsinkable when the scrape of an iceberg took the ship down. With so many people to blame it's hard to forgive and forget, but everything happens for a reason and the crew and everyone involved did the best they could to save people. If they would've been a little more prepared for a disaster, maybe less people would have died.

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