Costs: The costs of the
chartered plane were not paid for with Tax dollars as I understand it. The fishing boat did deviate from their plans to come and rescue her, but they are still fishing.
Even if the cost were entirely born by society at large, which it is not, why would we bemoan it. Why would we compare the cost of one young person striving as we as humans always have to be better, to be faster, to go farther, or to simply follow our dreams to any other course of action? We as societies have always spent money to support adventurers, because we have to. They hold the collective spirit of all of us to do something bigger than we think we are capable of. To prove that humanity is not just the day to day drudgery. Their adventures take us with them vicariously. They serve to lift our goals and visions by following their own. The cost of a rescue or two is a very high return on investment.
As far as safety, there are some questions I have as someone that has been out there in that in a small boat. But they are simply questions as to why the timing was done as it was.
She is not getting back immediately either. Although not stated in the media blitz, based on her return date, and the statement that she is to be transferred to another boat, I suspect that the fishing boat is carrying on fishing. The fishing boat was required by international law, and a lot of very old customs to render any and all aid they are able to any vessel in distress. Deviations to assist other sailors on the ocean is something we do because we must, and we want to. However that understanding is not something most people will ever experience.
The idea that young people should be incarcerated until they reach an age that they have been thoroughly brainwashed into the dominant paradigm is a modern idea. Children are not safe in our schools, their hearts and minds are not safe in our societies; and in most cases in the families in our country.
Read about the great people that have come before us... What made them great, their submissiveness to social norms, their dogged determination to stay in school, or was it their dreams, goals, and most importantly ambition.
Safety and fear are two side of a coin that is sold to all of us daily. The fear to do anything, and the promise of being kept safe by playing within social rules. Both are false promises. Don't place your fear of the world, and of making something of yourself on this young woman.
The great tragedy here is not that this young woman tried and failed to accomplish her goals, but the the majority of the sheeple of the modern developed countries lead lives of quiet desperation without any idea of their own dreams and goals. The tragedy is in the majority of people that do not do, not in the very few who have the heart to do.
Push yourselves, push the limits, learn to live.
"Argue for your limitations and they are yours."
Guy
