>I have grown tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation and new entrants from entering their small existing market. Since Guillermo and I started OceanGate we have heard the baseless cries of "you are going to kill someone" way too often. I take this as a serious personal insult.
Just... wow.
That said, it's mighty spectacular and sad the way he was proven wrong.
rip.
Apparently that was the plan. The CEO scrapped the idea and fired the engineer who suggested it was a safety problem (he filed a whistleblower lawsuit).
It certainly can be, but I have worked with people that absolutely use "safety" as a reason not to do anything, or as a reason to shoot down ideas from people they are competing against (different departments, possible promotions, etc). Like most things in life, this is not black or white, it's some shade of gray.
this is literally the exact same argument used by the CEO before he and several others died due to it
he was so insulted that experienced and qualified personnel were just trying to shoot down his idea
even if you believe this is the case in a given hypothetic, it's still not a valid reason to take it as an attack on you as a person, vs. a concern about a thing