> While most blame NASA for shady engineering I blame Morton Thiokol engineer Roger Boisjoly. He recommended the launch be scrubbed when he filed a safety report with his management.

> I regard Boisjoly as ultimately responsible because he knew the o-rings were out of thermal tolerance yet he failed in his effort to get the launch scrubbed.

You're saying we should blame lower-level employees when their managers deliberately ignore their advice? No, just no. Management's job is to take the advice given and choose how to act. If we follow your philosophy then not only are we putting blame on the wrong people, but you're basically telling people they need to constantly try to undermine their supervisors, because it'll be their ass on the line if they fail to push a certain course of action.