@OmSigDAVID,
On this matter I see it kicky's way. And I know we have a corporate manslaughter trial underway in France over the Concorde crash.
But they can't sentence the corporations to jail. Nor, harking back, to a whipping.
It's merely a legal device to ease the pain of those who lost loved ones in the accident, or Act of God. Which cannot be now we live in a Godless world. It must be somebody's fault now and thus compensation is due.
Not long ago, a coach crash down a ravine say, the locals would have rifled all the pockets and baggage, carried off the bits of coach they fancied and left the rest to nature. All that was known of them was that they never arrived. By the time a skull fetched up on a sandbank downstream, which the barefoot rascals played ball games with, all the inheritances had been settled and many an offspring catapulted into a mansion etc unexpectedly with the grief subsiding because only rich people travelled in coaches near ravines wheras all the Concorde passengers were in debt, or enough of them to cause this legal device to arise, and fingering the human being who the blame could be fastened to was nigh impossible, except in the most extreme flagrant cases, as the corporation has a system where every back is covered to avoid this very thing, being personally fingered.
If you thought the corporation is concerned with the safety of their customers, as their spokespersons, the PR team, so loudly proclaim, perhaps rather too loudly, you might have been slightly hoodwinked into overlooking that it is more covering the arse that actually leads to improved safety and not good intentions.
So it's easy to see how much we have progressed in such a short time under the Christian dispensation with its moral injunction to love thy neighbour.
In a little older days that coaches the rush to an earthquake was motivated exclusively by easy pickings.
