ItsBruce
Contributor
I am posting this here because it relates to accidents and incidents and I cannot think where else to post it.
One thing that I see time and again in reading about accidents and incidents is the discussion of "personal responsibility."
I am all for personal responsibility. It appears to me that the diving community is big on personal responsibility. That is good with me, too.
Maybe it is because I live in Los Angeles, but it seems to me that the diving community is bigger on personal responsibility than the rest of society. Is my perception here wrong?
I won't bother trying to identify incidents in which people who are hurt look for someone to blame. (McDonalds and the hot coffee comes right to mind.) Nor will I bother trying to identify incidents in which someone does something that clearly is wrong and no one wants to criticize them. (Roman Polanski comes to mind.)
So are we divers that much different from the rest of society? Or is my little corner of society just a bad corner?
One thing that I see time and again in reading about accidents and incidents is the discussion of "personal responsibility."
I am all for personal responsibility. It appears to me that the diving community is big on personal responsibility. That is good with me, too.
Maybe it is because I live in Los Angeles, but it seems to me that the diving community is bigger on personal responsibility than the rest of society. Is my perception here wrong?
I won't bother trying to identify incidents in which people who are hurt look for someone to blame. (McDonalds and the hot coffee comes right to mind.) Nor will I bother trying to identify incidents in which someone does something that clearly is wrong and no one wants to criticize them. (Roman Polanski comes to mind.)
So are we divers that much different from the rest of society? Or is my little corner of society just a bad corner?