“That was not a very intelligent comment on your part.
The local people did not build houses around a fertilizer plant - the grain company illegally stored fertilizer near those homes.”
I don’t think “West Fertilizer Company” would be illegally storing feritilizer.
“Blaming the townspeople - many of whom lost everything, including family members - is pretty repulsive, especially given the heroism and stoicism so many of them displayed.”
Personal responsibility — you take responsibility to your own safety! And lets not get libtard emotional arguments in the mix. We can talk like rational and logical people.
“If anyone deserves opprobrium it is the scum at that business who violated Texas law and put their neighbors in danger because they didn’t want to act like responsible adults.”
Bull. Anyone who builds or resides in residential complexes around a FERTILIZER plant are to blame. Personal responsibility and individual freedom should come to play here.
It’s unclear yet whether any legal violation happened. That’s why the cartoon was so gratuitous.
I’m betting on lawsuits that will bankrupt the company, if the normal kinds of consequences to such a thing follow. And there is such a thing as working together to mitigate risks, like developers wanting to build nearby making an agreement to pay the company to erect blast walls.