Teeth Gnashing over Royal’s Return to Labadee/Haiti.
NWLB
anything fun after a tragic event. Where it is fine and appropriate
to seek to respect people, or an area after something unfortunate
happens, I can't help but feel people are trying too hard to find
fault in Royal Caribbean sending ships to their resort at Labadee.
There was little to no damage to the area where the resort is
located. The local people depend on the ships for their income.
Relief supplies are arriving from those ships, at one of the few entry
points in the entire country. If the ships didn't stop there, they
would simply go someplace else, or no-place at all. Yet the ships
would sail all the same. People would revel in the joy of a cruise
anyway. The world would continues to move on.
Yet I read headlines over articles, such as "Is it ethical for cruise
ships to return to Haiti yet?" What kind of a flaming moron poses
such a question? Ethical? I suppose letting people fall into
unemployment, leaving the relief supplies in Miami, and stopping in
the U.S. Virgin Islands, simply because weak minds can't separate the
issues in one part of Haiti from another, is the only "ethical"
response to the disaster. Yes, we must make everything worse, because
we sop to some adolescent reaction to something fun being anyplace
near a disaster.
Pathetic.
I do not know from where yet, but I fully expect to find articles like
this grow as the same groups that attack the cruise industry hunt for
ways to exploit what they think is a new entry point to make
themselves heard.
Royal Caribbean's response has been precisely what it should be. Any
person that can not assert the intelligence and maturity to see the
situations in play for what they are, and acknowledge the appropriate
nature of the response, has issues of their own to deal with.