News: Germanwings Tragedy Focuses
Attention On Psychological Evaluations Of Pilots
Date: 03/27/2015
Ethical Values in People’s Quotidian Life
“This undated picture of Andreas Lubitz, the
co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a Germanwings jet into the French
Alps on Tuesday, was taken from Facebook on Thursday.” | REUTERS
Today, I gave a lot of thought to this case and
how the social media is covering it throughout the world. I don’t know how
necessary it may be, to know so many details about the man who crashed the
plane. That is, the case is an immense tragedy that needs to be investigated, I
won’t deny it, and for such the world needs to know what really happened. But,
I don’t know to what extent is necessary to know in detail all about his life.
What's next for his family? Shouldn’t take long before the news have the list
of names of every single person around him, his past girlfriends, friends, family
and coworkers. We’ll soon find out the brand of coffee he drank the morning
before the accident, the name of the flight school he attended, his doctors and
instructors, and every report with proper names, pictures and profiles about
the situation.
I'm sure none of us would like to be exposed to
the world in this manner because of a brother, husband, or relative of someone
who decided to kill dozens of people. It's true: his history marks our lives,
and that can’t be denied nor can it be undone, but the social media are
responsible for creating a huge circle of victims around the killer.
This is an ethical issue and not a mere journalist
reflection. Isn’t the airline company crossing boundaries by giving so much
information about whom they refer as the “sole responsible”? Why is there a
single target and not, for example, a series of events that led to a tragedy? Shouldn’t
the airline, law enforcers, and investigators prevent to fall in the risk of
telling a single story to a global audience?
Also, what will happen to those
"silent" or "depressive" that we see every day in our daily
lives? Will this news make any impact? Perhaps, not. But, today on the radio I
heard how they felt about "such people", calling them
"dangerous" and all sort of things. Perhaps if we search in the real
world every day, beyond the news, we may see they’re not as distant as we think.
They may be in our neighborhoods, in our jobs or even in our families.
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