BLAME – Bypass logic and misinterpret evidence.

More and more these days I see and hear things on the news and around me which enforces the fact that we are moving more into a blame culture society. This attitude in all areas of our lives is making life not only harder day by day but creating a society in which no one learns from mistakes other than how to blame other people for them, also this creates a negative view of situations before all the evidence is collected and the term innocent until proven guilty has lost all meaning.

My example to show how this is destroying our society is the recent tragedy in which a cruise ship crashed off the coast of Italy. From the very beginning the media looked at the captain as the one person who should be blamed for this. Now as the days have gone by more and more evidence has been presented by the media showing how the captain of the ship made mistakes and cause a catastrophic accident.

My issue with this is not the fact that the captain may have been in the wrong but due to the coverage all the information presented to us has a negative feel aimed directly at one man. Now I am not going to dispute that the buck stops at the top and he was in charge of the boat, but I cannot help thinking that it takes 1000 crew to run the ship, surely included in these 1000 people are other people who help manage the route the ship takes, navigators etc. also a ship of this size surely has some kind of sonar or under water radar, I don’t know as I have never worked on the bridge of a ship but I am using common sense to make an assumption. So with this in mind surely the route taken was a team effort and not just one man’s crazy manoeuvre (or so the media would have you believe). Next thing I expect to hear from the press is they have nicknamed the captain “Crazy Ivan” after the manoeuvre from the film “Hunt for Red October”.

So in conclusion should we all not stop trying to find someone to blame, should we not wait for all the facts before assuming someone is in the wrong, it’s time we all stood up and took responsibility for our mistakes and spent the time saved in trying to put things right, also lets not be so quick to jump on the bandwagon pointing at the accused and let’s wait until they are either found guilty or innocent.