On Feb 26, 10:09�am, wrote:
On Feb 26, 12:32�pm, Capt John wrote:





On Feb 26, 10:13�am, wrote:

The truly stupid will find ways to kill themselves, no matter how much
we try to protect them from themselves..

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332514,00.html

Hope the captain goes down for manslaughter....

Let me get this straight. This guy, an experianced diver, goes out on
a shark diving trip, knowing fully well sharks can be dangerous. He
see's the operators baiting the water to attract sharks, which any
diver knows can make sharks aggressive, he climbs into the water on
his own with the sharks (no one apparently threw him in, no one made
him get into the water). And you don't think he was responsible for
his own actions. That the captian is somehow guilty of manslaughter.
You can't possibly be serious.

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At what point do people become responsible for their own welfare and
the consequences of their own decisions? Should government, the
courts, the lawyers, or just Big Brother in general always be
available to rescue everybody who does a stupid thing?

I'm sure the dive boat operator feels *terrible* about this tragedy,
but manslaughter implies that the deceased was the unwitting or
unwilling victim of a crime rather than a participant in a
ridiculously stupid scheme to attract sharks to the area so he could
jump into the water with them.