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Originally Posted by blynk
Yeah, I understand the emotion of it. But let's take a different view.
A person is driving up to an intersection, and sees someone run a red light and crashes into the car in front of them.
Theres a huge fire. They risk their life pulling a baby out of the back seat.
Wow a hero.
Then you find out that in the previous 2 weeks, that hero racked up 25 red light offences and speeding offences
Do you wave them all because they risked their lives?
Those heroes could have been the ones on the island that day. Carrying tourists that were killed.
Just because you did something great one day, doesn't neccessary give you a free pass for all the wrong you may have done in the past.
Admittedly, I don't know the full extent of what "prosecutions" are.
Are they actual court cases, are they investigations? What are they trying to establish
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The thing your analogy doesn't account for is prior to this heroism the organisation prosecuting you for risking yourself signed off that running the red lights was OK and at an acceptable level of risk.
WorkSafe had just two weeks before signed off that the flights over and visits to the island were fine.