well yeah. in which case a "free" market is simply anarchy, in which a monopoly and oligarchy comes to dominate and "govern" in a sense: decide how much consumers pay and that no one competes. truly "free" in the sense there is no government, but a much worse place in actuality
so company {X} dominates a market for widgets. any smaller companies try to compete, they undercut the competitors prices to starve them out, then jack prices way high when the smaller companies fold, consumers having no real choice
tell me how this problem is "self-regulated" by the market to correct for the abuse
without rules, enforced, all markets quickly devolve into oligarchies and monopolies: customers and smaller players squashed and abused
so a free market requires government regulation
likewise, without rules enforcing net neutrality, large market players start fucking with the status quo to siphon off more cash. simply because they can
but there exists certain idiots in the world, a lot in the usa, who only see the government as a threat. the government IS a threat, in many avenues of life
but in the market place, the government is usually your only friend when it comes to real abuse from large market players
but again, this is an argument against corruption, not against government. again, the problem with regulatory capture is large market players corrupting the rules. so you want to heal your sick government, not weaken it further, thereby giving large market players yet even more ways to abuse you. and they will
but certain people, they just utterly lack the awareness that the government is not the only evil bogeyman in the world. many times in fact, like regulatory capture, the government isn't really the ultimate bogeyman, but just the front for the real villains: plutocracy
we need strong anticorruption rules in the usa. badly. the people are losing to big money. this will be our downfall
The soviet union collapsed and now russia is run by a thug dictator for life as his personal toy with immature cult of personality on the same level as north korea
they invaded and vivisected georgia, and now invade ukraine because their feelings were hurt when slavic brothers ukraine announced it preferred to go with europe. its economy is tanking because its economy is just digging up oil
it is 140 million people. china is 1.3 billion. eu is 500 million. both diversified and growing economies with stable governments, not politically immature kgb goon worship
canada is small and weak over a large land area too. difference being, canada is at peace and with good relations with its neighbors. russia looks for every opportunity to piss everyone off. ultranationalism and 1950s imperialism is a fantasy of hurt egos and faded glory. it's a colossal weakness, not a strength. it only announces more aggression to come exactly as gets weaker
russia is a dying country. the 1950s and sputnik and yuri gagarin was its highest point. everything from then on was/ is downhill
in a hundred years, the trajectory that started with the collapse of the soviet union will continue. sibera will pass to china (outer manchuria, which russia won from china only in 1850, is going majority chinese population soon). and everything west of moscow will pass to europe by choice or by fire, as ukraine shows
they are too few people over too large an area. their economy is too weak. and their politics is mafia level intimidation amateur hour, easy to topple and push around, if not outright inviting revolution when rabid ultranationalism loses its power
their much vaunted military will not keep up technologically and with a collapsing economy, and that's the only chip they have left that is weakening over time
the history of central asia is replete with giant empires that rise and fall. russia is but another to come to pass, and soon. i think this century, at least the next
no more deals with russia, especially on the space station. they are aggressive losers, any deals we make with them will not last and will be subject to further decay over time
to russian space scientists:
i suggest defecting to the west and private space companies. be the next sergey brin of space. he didn't make google in russia, and he never could have. the russian von brauns need to do the same
if you are willing to disregard sovereignty, the foundational basis for all the other concepts you cite disappear
without respecting sovereignty, there is no respecting anything else. didn't the last few centuries of european history teach you anything moron? would you rather the french march across the rhine again? or the germans across the alps? or the austrians across the danube? why don't they do that anymore? you're the one telling me sovereignty doesn't matter you dumb fuck
your german grandparents learned this lesson the hard way. it is a shame some loser germans like yourself still don't understand the simple fucking lesson, despite all your ancestors who have suffered for it, and all the nations around you your ancestors put through such suffering. what a pathetic historically ignorant loser
but it is your ignorant shame alone, not that of your countrymen, those germans with responsibility and intelligence understand, they know very well what kind of fire russia is playing with here. you are not like them
you're just a low iq outlier, you should stop talking about this subject. if you can't understand the importance of sovereignty, you are a moron on a topic you have no right to inject your stupidity into
there was really no need for insults there. We both are grown-ups and can hold a polite discussion.
i am not insulting you i am objectively describing your lack of awareness of basic concepts of a subject matter you've stumbled into without any understanding of it
and so i do not respect you. you are not my equal on this topic. you are not a grown up
because you do not understand, nor respect sovereignty. therefore you have marked yourself an ignorant child on the topic of geopolitics
do you wander into chemistry class and mumble about phlogiston? do you wander into biology class and prattle about lamarckism?
then why the fuck do you bloviate about geopolitics and disregard sovereignty thereby effectively announcing yourself as a fucking idiot?
ask yourself what is lost if sovereignty is not respected. the answer is: everything
i fear if moscow does not learn, it will soon be divided between the chinese and europe, just in time for the hundred year humbling of berlin in the same fashion
ukraine and georgia are but czechoslovakia and austria. abkhazia is sudetenland and novorussiya is the anschluss. same bullshit: the germans in sudetenland were "suffering" so nazis had to annex it. fucking arrogant imperial bullshit! same with what russia did to georgia! you really believe russian lies? there is zero justification to subjugate another country on nothing but arrogance and hurt ego. none
you disrespect another country's sovereignty, you are only inviting for your own to be torn to pieces too
if the russians are drunk on past glory and ultranationalism and feeling insulted at a recent loss (wwi -> collapse of the soviet union/ loss of influence in ukraine) like germany a hundred years ago, then russia under mafia goon putin will suffer the same fate as nazi germany
imperial machines all need to feed on the weak around them. we will see where the russians strike next. and thereby strengthen the resolve of all the world watching to deliver a death blow. as they must. as unanswered aggression merely creates more
siberia goes to china. all west of moscow goes to europe
russia is a dying thug. no one does what russia does to its neighbors except to announce its bankruptcy and weakness
What Russia did to Georgia in 2008 is a continuation of what Georgia did to itself in the early nineties
i stopped reading there
russia has no right to invade a sovereign country. do you understand? of course they have a "reason." do you have a functioning brain? can you see through their bullshit?
russia meddled in an *internal* georgian dispute that occurred within the internationally recognized borders of georgia. then it divided the country into a "new" bullshit country abkhazia
is it ok if the usa invades the mexican district of sonora and announces that it is a new country? why can the usa do this? uhhh... drug smuggling. yeah, that's our reason. perfectly good reason, totally understandable, right moron?
what was russia's reaons for invading georgia? guess what: it has no fucking right to invade and divide a sovereign country on those hopped reasons. do you understand what sovereignty is?
can the american fbi go into canada and arrest people? no? why not. can the us army occupy ontario? why not? because canada is a sovereign country, you dumb fuck
why do you think it's perfectly normal and ok for russia to invade and divide it's smaller neighbors? it's not normal. it's not acceptable
no country, anywhere in the world, does what russia did to georgia and ukraine without consequences. not south africa and mozambique. not china and vietnam. not brazil and uruguay. countries do not invade other sovereign countries and that's just normal and fine. do you understand?
if you do, continue speaking on this topic. but if you continue to assert russia invading and dividing georgia and ukraine is "reasonable" then you do not understand what the fuck sovereignty means and are therefore announcing yourself as a complete moron or a propagandized idiot on this topic and you should shut up
if you know your history, the area is ottoman, tatar, lithuanian, polish...
history can be used to justify any ignorant adventurist shit you can devise
what's actually important is the fucking borders of a fucking sovereign nation, and that modern states respect that
you didn't notice the imperial bullshit russia did on georgia in 2008?
russia is doing imperialism 1850 style. it needs to be, and will be, punished for being a stinking pile of destabilizing shit because of insecure nationalism. oh glorious russia has fallen from historical highs, boo hoo. and it will fall further now
yeah, i despise the plutocracy, the abuse of our political system by corporations, how wall street and bankers are allowed to get away with terrible crimes, etc.
but a bank is a fucking completely normal institution we all need. it just needs to be heavily regulated to function fairly
to call all banks evil and and all bankers evil just makes you out to be a complete moron
good luck with not getting robbed once people find out you stuff your money in your mattress
yes, i am familiar with this faulty line of reasoning
the simple response to your logical fallacy is: because grey areas exist doesn't mean black and white don't exist
it might not be possible to draw a hard line on behavior. but there is behavior which is clearly not in a grey area and clearly calls for a judgment against you
this pilot had clear signs of being untrustworthy to fly commercially. it's not fuzzy and unsure
if you don't believe me, wait until a few years when the first verdicts come down in this case. a judge/ jury will decide on his employer/ the govt fucking up. the facts as they appear now show a clear problem that should have precluded him from piloting any plane with people on board
NK puts its citizens in *concentration camps* for crimes, some petty, some political
*three generations* of prisoners
your granddad looked the wrong way at the wrong way
therefore, you are born in and suffer as a malnourished slave
this isn't a *political disagreement* i have, moron, this is me making an observation of extremely gross human rights abuses, that no other country in today's world approaches, save perhaps in the areas controlled by ISIS and Boko Haram. NK goes far, far beyond any cruelty in the USA and Saudi Arabia, or any other real country
the simple fact is you have no fucking clue what you are talking about
and, again, you lack a sense of proportionality and degree
your knowledge on this topic is deficient
and your judgment is wrong in such a way that tends to suggest a general deficiency, off on more than just geopolitics
you should stop talking about this topic unless you like being laughed at by anyone serious and intelligent
NK bad is several orders of magnitude worse than most countries in the world.
All countries have problems but to talk about those interchangeably with NK's problems is a farcical level of ignorance or intellectual dishonesty about just how bad it is in NK.
You can't say anything intelligent about your world if you have no sense of proportion and degree.
so give a financial incentive to self-report. that discretion and confidence will be maintained. that graceful financial transition would be supported. because the company would rather deal with that, much cheaper than a PR fiasco, lawsuits, destroyed equipment, etc
enforce that approach by law even
then you are left with the truly deep in denial types. those who think they can beat their illness, or that continuing in their job is proof they have things under control, until they don't. these are people who might have even been attracted to the job of airplane pilot in the first place, as a proof to themselves they can maintain great responsibility in the face of stress
so the problem becomes one like pedophiles in the priesthood: in some ways, the priesthood attracts well-meaning individuals who think the religious purity will allow them to beat an affliction they know they have. of course, human weakness prevails in the end
or pedophile teachers
or sadistic cops: you know you get a thrill abusing and dominating, so you're attracted to the police force
these are difficult problems
but that doesn't mean we tolerate pedophile priests/ teachers, sadistic police, or mentally ill pilots. it just means it is hard to root them out when they have an incentive to hide
mental illness is not a matter of a burst blood vessel, you don't understand the topic
and it doesn't matter if they get treatment or not. they cannot be trusted with human lives
although, there should indeed be an amnesty program such that reporting their problem means they don't get immediately fired or otherwise lose income
because then you're right: this is a disincentive to self-report. i don't know, maybe an incentive program to self-report? financially, the company would rather be on the line for gracefully financially transitioning a troubled employee, rather than dealing with the PR, lawsuits, direct costs, etc., of a downed plane. so the company has an incentive to reward the employee for self-reporting, and the company should do that. that should be enforced by law even
but allowing them to keep their position? no, completely unacceptable. if it is shown you have mental health issues, there is no way you should be allowed to be responsible for human lives
1. doctors and psychologists who do reviews for organizations that have employees with major responsibilities: the military, nuclear plants, airlines, etc, they should be required to inform employers
2. then, employers who have employees they know have mental problems *have* to remove them from job positions where loss of life is easily caused. if that means removing them from the only field they are trained to work in, so be it. time to get a new career in a new field
it's not discrimination. it's safety. there was apparently warnings that mental health evaluators and employers knew that this guy had serious depression. he should simply never have been allowed to continue to be a pilot
is that fair? is it fair 150 people are dead? if you have mental problem, i sympathize. but you should not be trusted with my life
you don't hire asthmatics to do heavy lifting in dusty places, you don't hire albinos to work in the sun, you don't hire amputees for typing jobs. and you don't hire people with mental disorders to fly airplanes
some people have medical conditions which preclude them from certain lines of work. if you have major depression, you should not be allowed to have any job where you can easily cause loss of life. you should not be a commercial pilot. period
it's rather shameful german law does not reflect this, or any other country for that matter. i hope these familes sue. the german government, the airline industry, and Germanwings screwed up, and they need to receive a heavy reprimand on the only terms they understand: financial ones
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you're trolling right?
well yeah. in which case a "free" market is simply anarchy, in which a monopoly and oligarchy comes to dominate and "govern" in a sense: decide how much consumers pay and that no one competes. truly "free" in the sense there is no government, but a much worse place in actuality
it can self-regulate as well.
so company {X} dominates a market for widgets. any smaller companies try to compete, they undercut the competitors prices to starve them out, then jack prices way high when the smaller companies fold, consumers having no real choice
tell me how this problem is "self-regulated" by the market to correct for the abuse
the problem is that we do not have strong laws against corruption
1. corporations and the rich buying congrescritters with election funds (supported in 2010 citizens united)
2. revolving door employment between regulator and the corporations they are supposed to regulate
other countries have clear laws against this type of thing. we can have that too (not easily, but we should, and we should try)
it's kind of like the concept of the free market
without rules, enforced, all markets quickly devolve into oligarchies and monopolies: customers and smaller players squashed and abused
so a free market requires government regulation
likewise, without rules enforcing net neutrality, large market players start fucking with the status quo to siphon off more cash. simply because they can
but there exists certain idiots in the world, a lot in the usa, who only see the government as a threat. the government IS a threat, in many avenues of life
but in the market place, the government is usually your only friend when it comes to real abuse from large market players
there does exist regulatory capture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
but again, this is an argument against corruption, not against government. again, the problem with regulatory capture is large market players corrupting the rules. so you want to heal your sick government, not weaken it further, thereby giving large market players yet even more ways to abuse you. and they will
but certain people, they just utterly lack the awareness that the government is not the only evil bogeyman in the world. many times in fact, like regulatory capture, the government isn't really the ultimate bogeyman, but just the front for the real villains: plutocracy
we need strong anticorruption rules in the usa. badly. the people are losing to big money. this will be our downfall
"statist" is an insult used by the kind of people who who call obama a muslim socialist
it's an inaccurate, hysterical, and unintelligent smear
ah yes, when dealing with an intellectually dishonest individual, one encounters upset resistance rather than the simple ability to concede a point
you're welcome for the education on sovereignty
Other countries may invade at their will, because it is apparently a different sovereignty.
and where the fuck did i ever say that you dumb shit? are you talking to me or some made up boogeyman in your head?
delusional AND stupid
it seems the german education system is failing its children as much as german mental health facilities are failing its pilots
zero respect to you. you are not an equal. you are a child
The soviet union collapsed and now russia is run by a thug dictator for life as his personal toy with immature cult of personality on the same level as north korea
they invaded and vivisected georgia, and now invade ukraine because their feelings were hurt when slavic brothers ukraine announced it preferred to go with europe. its economy is tanking because its economy is just digging up oil
it is 140 million people. china is 1.3 billion. eu is 500 million. both diversified and growing economies with stable governments, not politically immature kgb goon worship
canada is small and weak over a large land area too. difference being, canada is at peace and with good relations with its neighbors. russia looks for every opportunity to piss everyone off. ultranationalism and 1950s imperialism is a fantasy of hurt egos and faded glory. it's a colossal weakness, not a strength. it only announces more aggression to come exactly as gets weaker
russia is a dying country. the 1950s and sputnik and yuri gagarin was its highest point. everything from then on was/ is downhill
in a hundred years, the trajectory that started with the collapse of the soviet union will continue. sibera will pass to china (outer manchuria, which russia won from china only in 1850, is going majority chinese population soon). and everything west of moscow will pass to europe by choice or by fire, as ukraine shows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
they are too few people over too large an area. their economy is too weak. and their politics is mafia level intimidation amateur hour, easy to topple and push around, if not outright inviting revolution when rabid ultranationalism loses its power
their much vaunted military will not keep up technologically and with a collapsing economy, and that's the only chip they have left that is weakening over time
the history of central asia is replete with giant empires that rise and fall. russia is but another to come to pass, and soon. i think this century, at least the next
no more deals with russia, especially on the space station. they are aggressive losers, any deals we make with them will not last and will be subject to further decay over time
to russian space scientists:
i suggest defecting to the west and private space companies. be the next sergey brin of space. he didn't make google in russia, and he never could have. the russian von brauns need to do the same
if you are willing to disregard sovereignty, the foundational basis for all the other concepts you cite disappear
without respecting sovereignty, there is no respecting anything else. didn't the last few centuries of european history teach you anything moron? would you rather the french march across the rhine again? or the germans across the alps? or the austrians across the danube? why don't they do that anymore? you're the one telling me sovereignty doesn't matter you dumb fuck
your german grandparents learned this lesson the hard way. it is a shame some loser germans like yourself still don't understand the simple fucking lesson, despite all your ancestors who have suffered for it, and all the nations around you your ancestors put through such suffering. what a pathetic historically ignorant loser
but it is your ignorant shame alone, not that of your countrymen, those germans with responsibility and intelligence understand, they know very well what kind of fire russia is playing with here. you are not like them
you're just a low iq outlier, you should stop talking about this subject. if you can't understand the importance of sovereignty, you are a moron on a topic you have no right to inject your stupidity into
there was really no need for insults there. We both are grown-ups and can hold a polite discussion.
i am not insulting you i am objectively describing your lack of awareness of basic concepts of a subject matter you've stumbled into without any understanding of it
and so i do not respect you. you are not my equal on this topic. you are not a grown up
because you do not understand, nor respect sovereignty. therefore you have marked yourself an ignorant child on the topic of geopolitics
do you wander into chemistry class and mumble about phlogiston? do you wander into biology class and prattle about lamarckism?
then why the fuck do you bloviate about geopolitics and disregard sovereignty thereby effectively announcing yourself as a fucking idiot?
ask yourself what is lost if sovereignty is not respected. the answer is: everything
i fear if moscow does not learn, it will soon be divided between the chinese and europe, just in time for the hundred year humbling of berlin in the same fashion
ukraine and georgia are but czechoslovakia and austria. abkhazia is sudetenland and novorussiya is the anschluss. same bullshit: the germans in sudetenland were "suffering" so nazis had to annex it. fucking arrogant imperial bullshit! same with what russia did to georgia! you really believe russian lies? there is zero justification to subjugate another country on nothing but arrogance and hurt ego. none
you disrespect another country's sovereignty, you are only inviting for your own to be torn to pieces too
if the russians are drunk on past glory and ultranationalism and feeling insulted at a recent loss (wwi -> collapse of the soviet union/ loss of influence in ukraine) like germany a hundred years ago, then russia under mafia goon putin will suffer the same fate as nazi germany
imperial machines all need to feed on the weak around them. we will see where the russians strike next. and thereby strengthen the resolve of all the world watching to deliver a death blow. as they must. as unanswered aggression merely creates more
siberia goes to china. all west of moscow goes to europe
russia is a dying thug. no one does what russia does to its neighbors except to announce its bankruptcy and weakness
What Russia did to Georgia in 2008 is a continuation of what Georgia did to itself in the early nineties
i stopped reading there
russia has no right to invade a sovereign country. do you understand? of course they have a "reason." do you have a functioning brain? can you see through their bullshit?
russia meddled in an *internal* georgian dispute that occurred within the internationally recognized borders of georgia. then it divided the country into a "new" bullshit country abkhazia
is it ok if the usa invades the mexican district of sonora and announces that it is a new country? why can the usa do this? uhhh... drug smuggling. yeah, that's our reason. perfectly good reason, totally understandable, right moron?
what was russia's reaons for invading georgia? guess what: it has no fucking right to invade and divide a sovereign country on those hopped reasons. do you understand what sovereignty is?
can the american fbi go into canada and arrest people? no? why not. can the us army occupy ontario? why not? because canada is a sovereign country, you dumb fuck
why do you think it's perfectly normal and ok for russia to invade and divide it's smaller neighbors? it's not normal. it's not acceptable
no country, anywhere in the world, does what russia did to georgia and ukraine without consequences. not south africa and mozambique. not china and vietnam. not brazil and uruguay. countries do not invade other sovereign countries and that's just normal and fine. do you understand?
if you do, continue speaking on this topic. but if you continue to assert russia invading and dividing georgia and ukraine is "reasonable" then you do not understand what the fuck sovereignty means and are therefore announcing yourself as a complete moron or a propagandized idiot on this topic and you should shut up
if you know your history, the area is ottoman, tatar, lithuanian, polish...
history can be used to justify any ignorant adventurist shit you can devise
what's actually important is the fucking borders of a fucking sovereign nation, and that modern states respect that
you didn't notice the imperial bullshit russia did on georgia in 2008?
russia is doing imperialism 1850 style. it needs to be, and will be, punished for being a stinking pile of destabilizing shit because of insecure nationalism. oh glorious russia has fallen from historical highs, boo hoo. and it will fall further now
they call ukraine "new russia"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
i suggest the usa call kamchatka "new alaska"
china can reclaim outer manchuria they lost to russia in the mid 1800s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
fuck you russia, imperial bullying douchebag
we should not be doing any space program with these assholes, we should be shutting down programs
yeah, i despise the plutocracy, the abuse of our political system by corporations, how wall street and bankers are allowed to get away with terrible crimes, etc.
but a bank is a fucking completely normal institution we all need. it just needs to be heavily regulated to function fairly
to call all banks evil and and all bankers evil just makes you out to be a complete moron
good luck with not getting robbed once people find out you stuff your money in your mattress
yes, i am familiar with this faulty line of reasoning
the simple response to your logical fallacy is: because grey areas exist doesn't mean black and white don't exist
it might not be possible to draw a hard line on behavior. but there is behavior which is clearly not in a grey area and clearly calls for a judgment against you
this pilot had clear signs of being untrustworthy to fly commercially. it's not fuzzy and unsure
if you don't believe me, wait until a few years when the first verdicts come down in this case. a judge/ jury will decide on his employer/ the govt fucking up. the facts as they appear now show a clear problem that should have precluded him from piloting any plane with people on board
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi
i will not laugh at you, mr. scary insect politician man
NK puts its citizens in *concentration camps* for crimes, some petty, some political
*three generations* of prisoners
your granddad looked the wrong way at the wrong way
therefore, you are born in and suffer as a malnourished slave
this isn't a *political disagreement* i have, moron, this is me making an observation of extremely gross human rights abuses, that no other country in today's world approaches, save perhaps in the areas controlled by ISIS and Boko Haram. NK goes far, far beyond any cruelty in the USA and Saudi Arabia, or any other real country
the simple fact is you have no fucking clue what you are talking about
and, again, you lack a sense of proportionality and degree
your knowledge on this topic is deficient
and your judgment is wrong in such a way that tends to suggest a general deficiency, off on more than just geopolitics
you should stop talking about this topic unless you like being laughed at by anyone serious and intelligent
maybe because they don't live in North Korea?
do you know about insect fighting in Taiwan?
you don't?
must be censorship
NK bad is several orders of magnitude worse than most countries in the world.
All countries have problems but to talk about those interchangeably with NK's problems is a farcical level of ignorance or intellectual dishonesty about just how bad it is in NK.
You can't say anything intelligent about your world if you have no sense of proportion and degree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
that doesn't matter
that the problem is hidden does not mean the problem doesn't need to be dealt with
are you saying do nothing and allow such people to continue to pilot?
that's stupid
keeping someone who is mentally ill out of a job with responsibility over human lives has absolutely nothing to do with the holocaust
i agree
so give a financial incentive to self-report. that discretion and confidence will be maintained. that graceful financial transition would be supported. because the company would rather deal with that, much cheaper than a PR fiasco, lawsuits, destroyed equipment, etc
enforce that approach by law even
then you are left with the truly deep in denial types. those who think they can beat their illness, or that continuing in their job is proof they have things under control, until they don't. these are people who might have even been attracted to the job of airplane pilot in the first place, as a proof to themselves they can maintain great responsibility in the face of stress
so the problem becomes one like pedophiles in the priesthood: in some ways, the priesthood attracts well-meaning individuals who think the religious purity will allow them to beat an affliction they know they have. of course, human weakness prevails in the end
or pedophile teachers
or sadistic cops: you know you get a thrill abusing and dominating, so you're attracted to the police force
these are difficult problems
but that doesn't mean we tolerate pedophile priests/ teachers, sadistic police, or mentally ill pilots. it just means it is hard to root them out when they have an incentive to hide
mental illness is not a matter of a burst blood vessel, you don't understand the topic
and it doesn't matter if they get treatment or not. they cannot be trusted with human lives
although, there should indeed be an amnesty program such that reporting their problem means they don't get immediately fired or otherwise lose income
because then you're right: this is a disincentive to self-report. i don't know, maybe an incentive program to self-report? financially, the company would rather be on the line for gracefully financially transitioning a troubled employee, rather than dealing with the PR, lawsuits, direct costs, etc., of a downed plane. so the company has an incentive to reward the employee for self-reporting, and the company should do that. that should be enforced by law even
but allowing them to keep their position? no, completely unacceptable. if it is shown you have mental health issues, there is no way you should be allowed to be responsible for human lives
1. doctors and psychologists who do reviews for organizations that have employees with major responsibilities: the military, nuclear plants, airlines, etc, they should be required to inform employers
2. then, employers who have employees they know have mental problems *have* to remove them from job positions where loss of life is easily caused. if that means removing them from the only field they are trained to work in, so be it. time to get a new career in a new field
it's not discrimination. it's safety. there was apparently warnings that mental health evaluators and employers knew that this guy had serious depression. he should simply never have been allowed to continue to be a pilot
is that fair? is it fair 150 people are dead? if you have mental problem, i sympathize. but you should not be trusted with my life
you don't hire asthmatics to do heavy lifting in dusty places, you don't hire albinos to work in the sun, you don't hire amputees for typing jobs. and you don't hire people with mental disorders to fly airplanes
some people have medical conditions which preclude them from certain lines of work. if you have major depression, you should not be allowed to have any job where you can easily cause loss of life. you should not be a commercial pilot. period
it's rather shameful german law does not reflect this, or any other country for that matter. i hope these familes sue. the german government, the airline industry, and Germanwings screwed up, and they need to receive a heavy reprimand on the only terms they understand: financial ones
that's utterly lame
well, now we know how to make our STEM programs #1 and better than finland
swords for everyone!
yeah but...
doctoral swords
dude!