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I find comments like this not very helpful. I mean, sure tall things fall, but you have presumably competent people working with these things, people that understand risks and do this all their life. Certainly people that know more than you and me. Somehow, they failed on this, and there's lessons to learn here, but smug "hurr-durr, don't stack things tall" is not it.

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> you have presumably competent people working with these things, people that understand risks and do this all their life.

I don't know if you are Turkish, but unfortunately this statement is not a given in Turkey, mostly because of corruption, nepotism, and a general lack of respect for knowledge and experience.

I personally know some of the people who built this mine.

I'm not sure about Turkey, but everywhere it's common to fire the guy that is worried about security and doesn't want to cut corners. Even if they are competent, some people must choose eating or safety.

When you consider the costs of "doing it the right way", the reasoning becomes much more complex no matter how competent people are. In addition to all the corruption, we also culturally tend to be more risk-tolerant when it comes to safety IMO.

Comment might not be helpful, but it's very true.

Just world fallacy

> "hurr-durr, don't stack things tall"

This is a rude and uncharitable (bordering on disingenuous) paraphrase of the post you're replying to. The fact that you tossed in an extraneous "hurr-durr" of your own seems to indicate that you feel particularly incapable of responding to what was actually said.

What should I be responding to more exactly? Someone saying platitudes while being smug? Yes, I am incapable of responding because there is nothing to respond _to_.

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