What happened to...

Chivalry?

or

Going down with the ship?

I'll admit I always thought the latter was rather silly until I heard of it playing out in real life. I was of the attitude- why would the captain go down with his ship if there was an option to be saved? Why wouldn't he make sure everyone was safe first and then grab a boat/life vest of his own?

Captain Obvious.



But good grief. The entire Costa Concordia cruise ship seems negligent. The Captain, however, should have definitely made more of an effort to get his hands dirty and help the thousands of passengers out instead of "coordinating" the evacuation safely from afar.

Chivalry is dead. Those poor women and children ;)



There's no good reason I can think of in this day and age that everyone shouldn't have been escorted safely off this boat. Think of all the technology! No doubt someone on Twitter or Facebook knew she was sinking before some of the passengers were aware because of that one guy who shares everything on his social networking sites. Where was the organization? Did the staff just wad up the evacuation plan and toss it in Davy Jones Locker?

The nerve.

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P.S. For those of you who don't know, today is blackout day on the net. Various websites are going down for 24 hours to oppose the SOPA and PIPA acts that would allow the U.S. to censor the Internet. Obviously, I couldn't leave my readers without full functionality of my site ;) but if this is something you oppose, go tell someone about it, will ya?