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Cimarron29414 · 05-05-2010, 09:37 AM

While it may have been an act of God which caused the spill (which is sort of a legal term for a nature event causing the damage as opposed to human error), that does not change the fact that man was entirely unprepared and sluggish in containing the damage the act of God could(will) cause - which is the egregious part. We have a moral obligation to have safety/containment measures in place for something like this. This event has certainly exposed to me the cavalier approach that man has taken in underwater drilling. I still believe that collecting this oil is necessary, but I can't believe they didn't have a system, a backup system, and a backup's backup for instantly capping a pipe at the ocean floor.

05-05-2010, 09:37 AM	#44 (permalink)
Cimarron29414 Still Free Location: comfortably perched at the top of the bell curve!	While it may have been an act of God which caused the spill (which is sort of a legal term for a nature event causing the damage as opposed to human error), that does not change the fact that man was entirely unprepared and sluggish in containing the damage the act of God could(will) cause - which is the egregious part. We have a moral obligation to have safety/containment measures in place for something like this. This event has certainly exposed to me the cavalier approach that man has taken in underwater drilling. I still believe that collecting this oil is necessary, but I can't believe they didn't have a system, a backup system, and a backup's backup for instantly capping a pipe at the ocean floor. __________________ Gives a man a halo, does mead. "Here lies The_Jazz: Killed by an ambitious, sparkly, pink butterfly." Last edited by Cimarron29414; 05-05-2010 at 10:41 AM..