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In Reply to: RE: Do you think 'someone' is responsible for factory fire tragedy. Or each individual should have paid attention? posted by Smelly_Socks on December 06, 2016 at 15:26:23
I think that the people who lived in that warehouse did so for monetary reasons. I don't know what the rent was, but it was probably cheap compared to where else they might live. I expect that they realized that the place wasn't safe, but took the chance because most people believe that bad things happen to other people. That's why they text and drive, don't wear seat belts etc. People get away with the philosophy of it won't happen to me until it happens to them.
The people living there were definitely partially responsible for what happened to them in my opinion. The owner of the building and the local regulatory agencies are also responsible. The people who died won't have to pay for their portion of the blame. I expect that the city will end up paying.
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Great post.
"The people living there were definitely partially responsible for what happened to them in my opinion."
You could leave off the "in my opinion" part.
And, I'd say that they were ENTIRELY responsible for their fate. Who in their right mind would live in an unsafe warehouse which is not zoned for residential occupancy? Ya gotta be pretty dumb to do that.
And "artists"?! Ya gotta be a piss-poor artist to be living in an unsafe warehouse which isn't zoned for residential occupancy. This is the 21st century equivalent to the sixties "hippie commune".
On the other hand, both the property owner and the City should pay BIG TIME for allowing the situation to exist. Maybe - maybe - this will be a wake-up call to Oakland and cities across the nation, and to property owners who allow this sort of thing to go on.
:)
It's been one of the worst run big cities for a loooong time.
You'd think it was in Michigan.
The Oakland Police Department is a disgrace and is representative of the troubles
the backwards thinking city continues to face.
There's so much political BS there it makes Baltimore in "The Wire" seem pleasant by comparison.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Horrible tragedy, and I'm sure that there will be plenty of blame to go around especially once the lawyers sink their teeth into it.
On the other hand I can imagine the shitstorm in the media if, instead of this tragic fire, the City came in and evicted all of these "artists", squatters, and poseurs before they self-immolated.
"Fascists, capitalist pigs, globalist tools"! They'd even find a way to blame ..........guess who?
"You pays your monies and you takes your chances" - but sometimes it seems like no matter what you just can't win.
Cheers,
SB
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