Is this like turning off one's "check engine" light?
Spain mourns as air disaster probe continues
Excerpt:
The plane returned to the gate and the valve was fixed by technicians turning it off, said Mendoza, explaining that this was standard procedure.
Comment: More of a question really: "Is this like turning off one's "check engine" light?" I await an engineer's response (BikeBubba!)
Somehow that's disappeared from the article. At any rate, I hesitate to draw conclusions about systems I don't understand based on the apparently retracted quote by a (completely nontechnical) journalist.
ReplyDeleteAnalogy to the "check engine light" is a good one, though. Some systems are critical, some are not, you want to get it checked out. If the decision on the ground differs from the manufacturer's directions, you can count on some lawyers making a mint.
And they should. A former colleague of my step-dad did the dental work for a crash in Indiana about 10 years back. Guy couldn't sleep for months--so yes, if there was a screw-up, somebody deserves to pay and in a big way.
(in my not humble enough opinion)
What does it matter if someone "screwed up" or not?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't this question really depend upon what you think of John Calvin? Or perhaps put in another way, wouldn't your view of Calvin determine if "screwed up" should have quotation marks or not?
This is a recent, raw tragedy and I don't in any sense mean to make light or be flippant at all. That is not my intent. You could ask these same questions about any tragedy.
Does God cause airplane crashes and wrecks? If that's the case, then no one really "screwed up." Was someone fated or chosen to get drunk the night before and therefore screw up the maintenance job the next morning? If that's the case, can you really put that person at blame? Is it as if they really had a choice?
I'm not trying to be cute asking these questions. They are real questions and I'm not saying I have the answer, either. I'd like to hear what others think.
Is there anyone else in the world who thinks maybe Calvinism and free will are BOTH correct? The Bible is so very blatant about people making choices, be they good or bad, throughout the Old and New Testament. On the other side, there does seem to be pretty good evidence that God works in mysterious ways and wills that things get done. Could there be a combination of the two theologies? Some things in life man is responsible for and makes choices, and in other areas he has no control because things are fated to be that way?
ReplyDelete(Sorry, bb. I'm not answering your engineering question.)
My question? You mean JP's.
ReplyDeleteAnd the issues of God's sovereignty (yes He knew this would happen) and human responsibility? I know they're both true.