RE: Mines Shut12 Aug 2019 02:02
Payouts don’t work, and it’s a hard ball to stop when payouts start rolling.
If they pay out The family then yea the family might might not retaliate but the cousins, friends, other people surrounding the area will still want “revenge” it’s human nature, and if you compensate people who get hurt when they brake the law then some others could then see it as a way of making money and potentially insight violence for their own gain.
in reality why should the company compensate the family of someone who broke the law - stealing / threatening / violence / damage to property / trespass etc etc. If they weren’t braking the law they wouldn’t have been there to get hurt.
an extreme response but it could have saved other staff members lives, we were told they were armed so it Could have gone the other way, depending on how it played out the security staff members actions could have been seen as “heroic” by some.
We will only ever know part of the story but It’s a shame that greed has claimed another victim and will haunt many others on both sides for the rest of their lives.
Similar scenarios have started many conflicts in history around the world and many have lasted decades, long term making payouts made little difference, only time does.