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Deepwater Horizon...and willfull  blindness

1/29/2017

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Margaret Heffernan writes in her classic book, Willful Blindness..."After the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, Tony Hayward, the then chief executive of BP, was quick to point out that the rig was built by Hyundai in Korea to a design by a Texas firm, R&B Falcon, which was then bought by the Swiss operators, Transocean, who leased it to BP. Most of the victims were not BP employees. "This wasn't," Hayward said, "our accident." 

​He was and is willfully blind.


I would say that so much of life is the same...in that we are willfully blind to the destructive and toxic relationships that we engage in.
What is willful blindness? Willful blindness is a term used in law to describe a situation in which a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally keeping oneself unaware of facts that would render liability. (Wikipedia)
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