So it's OK for people to be maimed or debilitated by their jobs, as long as they're well compensated? And it's also OK for their employer to deny any complicity?
I'm not asking for life without risk.
The NFL paid millions of dollars to hide the truth about concussions. Its doctor lied about relevant data, and reported there was no correlation between playing football and CTE.
Are hazmat specialists given faulty suits or masks, and told they will protect them when it is known by their employers that they will not?
The fact the league tried to cover up the data is reprehensible, and I would find for the plaintiffs on that alone. ANOTHER huge blow to integrity for Rog.
But like I said, info about blows to the head has been available for those curious enough to look for about a hundred years. No better example than former boxers.
True story: grew up in a small South Shore town. One of the local cops was a Rocky-type story - gym rat always beaten up, cousin or in-law to Hagler so he spa'd a lot. He'd pull you over and you couldn't understand a word he said. He'd stop talking mid sentence. His melon was mush.
On the topic of employer and compensation rewards and such. People have to make their own choices. But I cannot stand people making an incredibly risky choice and doing the woe is me act.
When I was 16 I had a sandblasting job. Great money for that age. All I could think about was boning Debbie, getting a bag of skunk, who was gonna buy beer tonite, work, getting Linda to sneak off at the bonfire parties, sports, and road-head from Paula. Kinda in that order.
But as I'm filling the hopper with shovel full and shovel full of clean sand I look up on that beautiful summer day and see the plume of blasted paint and spent sand cascading in an ugly cloud down to earth. Where I was.
I didn't stick around.
Sooner or later your own common sense has to rise to the occasion and answer the risk/reward problem you are faced with. And take the responsibility for the decision.
