Quote Originally Posted by Proletariat
So yes, drunk driving is fine if you don't hit anyone. No one died this time, so no need to be a 'dick' about it.
It is my understanding that the man was told he could not fly, because of the contageous stage of his TB. He flew anyway, knowing he was exposing hundreds to the possability of contracting it.

TB was, a short time ago, contained and all but resolved. Thing is, we (world health authoritys) got complaisant and sloppy - just as they have been with measles, mumps, chicken pox, polio, etc. As the viruses get stronger - evolve, our medicines get weaker and the resolve to think them serious becomes weakened (since 1st world kids ain't dying of them - except the poor) - it is acceptable for some to make light of a "typhoid Mary" flying on a plane.

Thing is, as already pointed out, the new strains of TB are killers. There is no cure. Not now, and some say not in the near future because they have evolved beyond our knowledge of them (or ability to ....).

What would these same people say of a person that knows they have AIDs dating their son or daughter? Or, did their kids take the pledge? [oops]. It all then makes sense - that one can be high and mighty about a man possibly contaminating a few hundred or so commoners they don't know (you do know that the air on a plane is recirculated? Is how they so easily banned smoking from flights) and think this is some kind of "personal freedom". #Where as, these same fops accept the new rules allotted the NSA - oh well, lets not be political on a health issue. Simply wouldn't be "right".

All the people on that flight have law suits against 'him' - in the U.S., atleast - for putting them in unwarrented harm without warning. I mean, had he step on the Plane and said, "I got uncurable TB", then the passengers had the choice of staying or leaving. He gave them no such choice.

The "dick" needs to be prosecutes to the fullness of the law.

TB, btw, can take up to a year (or more) to manisfest itself. It is a sneaky little thing. And, the latest strains do kill one. Nice. real nice guy, knowing what he was doing, and doing it anyway.

BTW, the driving while drunk analogy? Lame at best.

Why not use a child molester gets away with it, is it really mollestation?

Makes as much sense.