[TML] When the Lights Go Out

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 8/3/07 2:00 PM, "Richard Aiken" wrote:

> On 8/2/07, Alan Peery <peery at io.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Seriously, wouldn't emergency low berths adequate for all personnel
>> (plus a few for visitors) be a standard part of every installation in
>> hostile and remote environments?
> 
> And on every ship not equipped with sufficient evacuation small craft.  At
> least, that's how it's always been IMTU.  Of course, crews desperate for
> income often (illegally) sell low passage in these berths.  So the
> possibility exists that -- when the crew needs to use the ELBs for their
> stated purpose -- they'll already be filled with folk . . . yielding a nice
> moral quandary for Our Heros.  <eg>

Either a) I'm a bad person for being involved in selling passage in ELB, or
b) I wasn't involved in selling that passage and the passenger is a bad
person for having engaged in illegal passage.

In either case, I see no moral quandary in dumping said passenger out the
airlock.

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