It never ceases to amaze me how impatience causes people to almost totally lose their minds. Today when I was reading an article about the airline crisis in Europe and the utter pandemonium caused by travel delays, the outrage over “industry losses” and the possibly unnecessary grounding of flights, I kept wondering where the value of human life factors in. Just as I was thinking, “boy, isn’t anyone considering how tragic it would be for the families if a plane went down?” I read this line:

“It would be much bigger a catastrophe for us in case of any passenger plane crash.

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