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Originally Posted by Colin_Fraser
That's not entirely true. They are being imprisoned because their negligence and indifference attributed to the deaths of more than 300 people.
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If the scientists are "negligent" or "indifferent" then the same can be said for local governments issuing building permits in earthquake prone areas or engineers designing structures that are not earthquake proof?
Have any local government officials or engineers been sent to prison?
Many more people died in the Christchurch earthquake of 2011 which was an aftershock of the 2010 earthquake. No scientists have been prosecuted or imprisoned to my knowledge, yet aftershocks are very common, perhaps being more predictable than the swarm of small earthquakes preceding the large quake scenario that occurred in Italy.
As much as I dislike to make unsubstantiated conclusions one cannot help but think that the scientists have been made the scapegoats.
Regards
Steven