James Stout

That is kind of what's going on here.

The central legal question is not, was it bad that they killed these people?

It's,

Did these people have to die because disasters that the Zorg's crew were not in control of had caused a situation where it was impossible to keep them alive, right?

Is this a situation where there was no other option, where people were going to die one way or the other and they were trying to save a portion of the crew and the cargo?

Right.

Or was this a case where the people operating the ship had fucked up constantly and

and unnecessarily murdered a bunch of people, and we're now trying to get insurance money to cover up the fact that they fucked up, right?

Which of these is what happened here, right?

And to be clear, if you approach the case of the Zorg from just that standpoint, ignoring the crime against humanity, the Gregson Syndicate and its employees are in the wrong.

Right.

Because they did fuck up repeatedly and horribly.

Yeah.

You know, you do not have to be like morally against slavery to be like, well, but like you guys didn't know what the fuck you were doing.

You just threw them over.

But you had 400 gallons of water on the boat.

You know who else has a lot of water?

I can make a guess.

Yeah.

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