Icelandic volcano erupts

[Lilith7]

I think, mostly, Engineers do their best but Management being supposedly superior in their own minds; after all they are in charge of whatever, are quite prepared to take risks, in fact that is a big part of what they do, taking chances and keeping "an eye on the main chance".

So they have a propensity to fail or not quite succeed as they intended and so often feel that they would rather cover up than admit that they were wrong or have in some way failed.

It's more how life itself is set up; if you are too careful, which is what engineering types try to be you won't catch the big fish, so to speak.

The educated guess is how it may be justified, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

The counterpoint is "you can never be too safe", or can you?

It's somewhat of a tightrope walk; inherent in life I feel.

And at the bottom of it all is greed - oddly enough I was just discussing this yesterday with the two grandsons, & it seems to permeate everything in these times. 

It wasn't always like this; there was a time when safety came before everything else, & consideration for others played more of a part than it now does.  We're a strange species...