Ever since 9/11, it seems as if people are gun-shy about doing anything fun after a tragic event.  Where it is fine and appropriate to seek to respect people, or an area after something unfortunate happens, I can’t help but feel people are trying too hard to find fault in Royal Caribbean sending ships to their resort at Labadee.

There was little to no damage to the area where the resort is located.  The local people depend on the ships for their income.  Relief supplies are arriving from those ships, at one of the few entry points in the entire country.  If the ships didn’t stop there, they would simply go someplace else, or no-place at all.  Yet the ships would sail all the same.  People would revel in the joy of a cruise anyway.  The world would continues to move on.

Yet I read headlines over articles, such as “Is it ethical for cruise ships to return to Haiti yet?”  What kind of a flaming moron poses such a question?   Ethical?  I suppose letting people fall into unemployment, leaving the relief supplies in Miami, and stopping in the U.S. Virgin Islands, simply because weak minds can’t separate the issues in one part of Haiti from another, is the only “ethical” response to the disaster.  Yes, we must make everything worse, because we sop to some adolescent reaction to something fun being anyplace near a disaster.

Pathetic.

I do not know from where yet, but I fully expect to find articles like this grow as the same groups that attack the cruise industry hunt for ways to exploit what they think is a new entry point to make themselves heard.

Royal Caribbean’s response has been precisely what it should be.  Any person that can not assert the intelligence and maturity to see the situations in play for what they are, and acknowledge the appropriate nature of the response, has issues of their own to deal with.