[henvic]

> We should be asking why they asked irresponsibly. > I suspect that the guilt they must live with is punishment enough. We should ask this for the sake of science. However, it is not only accident prevention here that should be at stake here. They signed off and should be held responsible. I'm not even talking about punishment here but about repairing the damages done.

This is a question of justice first of all. Punishing for the sake of punishment is not the way forward. It is true that people will think twice [before dismissing such kind of complains] if they see that you can't get away with [unintended] murder but this should be a secondary, positive side-effect only. If you try to punish to send a message it might be unjust, send the wrong message (like, silencing whistleblowers that have doubts or people from fixing their own mistakes), or both.

[speedplane]

> This is a question of justice first of all.

No it's not. This is a question of optimizing spaceflight for safety.