> Firstly, I'd suggest the author look at this differently; perhaps "For Want of a Code Review". Especially code from a relatively recent graduate, on a piece of code for which the engineer in question has little experience.

I assume the story is made up, but if we were to take it at face value the title would be "For Want of Basic Human Decency"; the author is saying that they saw this whole easily preventable train wreck happen in slow motion and did not lift a finger to prevent it, instead laughing, taking notes and thinking of the fabulous snarky blog bost that would have come out of it.