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Originally Posted by karunaji
It is just a symbolic example. Grounded Costa Concordia illustrates it even better.
A young crew member drowned while helping passengers to escape, whereas the captain "fell" in the first rescue boat available. Actually there is no law that the captain should be the last person leaving his sinking ship but it is a sacred tradition, a moral code, and for very good reasons. And allegedly he was doing those risky maneuvers on the instructions from the ship owners.
I feel that our economy is just like that ship guided by captains without moral responsibility.
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Except if you look at the charges against the captain, he is charged with abandoning ship.
quote, "According to Italian navigation code, a captain who abandons ship before others are safe can face up to 12 years in prison"
So, actually according to Italian law, there IS a requirement that the captain of a ship does not abandon ship until others are safe. Under the laws of a lot of other nations, the captain probably could be convicted of negligence, manslaughter, abandonment or a number of other crimes if they abandon ship before resonably attempting to ensure the evacuation of the passengers and crew first. In general a captain does not need to go down with their ship, but if it is "every man for themself, I am getting of this thing!", then they likely will be facing charges.