My first thought on this is how sorry I am to hear about it. Friendly Fire and Fratricide has been a problem since man first started fighting each other.
I hope that the investigation finds what happened, and any way we can reduce the chances of something like this happening again.
you are PERFECT...you would do everything right
Ah this nonsense again. Tell me something. Help me out. If we can reduce the chances of this happening again, how wrong is that to want it?
Take airplane investigations. The plane crashes, and investigators spend months figuring out what happened, the sequence of events. Sometimes it is mechanical like the 737 Max issues. Sometimes it is unforeseen complications from weather. The microburst phenomenon that we did not know about until after it had downed several planes.
Take Microbursts. We had no idea what happened. It took a long time to figure it out, and planes were crashing. All of a sudden on approach the plane would go really fast. The pilot trying to land would reduce power. Trying to slow down. Then the plane would be pushed down, the pilot would pull back on the controls in an effort to get back on the glide path, and then the plane would be going too slow, a stall, the plane crashes. People die, on the plane, and sometimes on the ground.
Once we learned, we installed sensors around airports to watch for these phenomenon. We trained the pilots. Not because we expect them to be perfect, but because we learned, and we should apply that knowledge. Now, the pilot knows when the speed up comes, he should power out of the approach and climb away. It is called a Go Around. The pilots are trained to call it out as TOGO. TOGO stands for a power setting on the aircraft. Take off Go Around. Planes even had buttons or switches on the controls to trigger an automatic power increase and climb setting.
None of us are perfect. But we can learn, and improve. We will never be perfect, but we can reduce the losses.
Every field does this. Medicine. During World War One, Two, Korea. And about halfway through Vietnam. We used to give morphine shots right away when a guy was injured. We wanted to help our fellow in pain. Now, we don’t. We restricted the access to Morphine. We learned. We were killing our troops by giving them a drug that sent them into shock. We had to stabilize the patient first, before we treated pain, to prevent the onset of Shock.
I can find no fault with anyone who did give morphine before we understood what it was doing. I don’t blame people who don’t know, and I understand they were trying to help.
We learn as individuals, and we learn as a species. We apply that knowledge, both as individuals, and as species. That isn’t perfect, that is nothing more than the way our civilization has gotten here. We learned. We improved. We applied the knowledge, and learned more.
