Something bad happens, and the first thing on your mind is, "We have to blame this on somebody!"
And you wonder why America is mocked as such a litigious country...
And you wonder why America is mocked as such a litigious country...
I think there's confusion with the "blame game". As in, once you can blame someone, the problem is over and solved but that's just the start to solving the problem. I always want to know who did something wrong and how it happened so we could work to prevent it from happening again in the future.
"It's not about pointing the finger or otherwise apportioning blame. It's about learning from mistakes and preventing them from happening again."
Just assigning blame is a cop-out that doesn't do anything other than make people better by finding a scapegoat and punishing that scapegoat as a result.
This would include, to my mind, monetary compensation as well as having the offenders cover the cost of mental rehabilitation.
It's a traumatic experience and we should not be so heartless.
I am more concerned with the person who had his life destroyed, not so much the system. The system is guaranteed to muck up, by definition.