IN 1912, the sinking of the mighty ship called the "Titanic" sent 1,516 people to a watery grave. The "Titanic", first thought to be unsinkable, sank to the bottom of the ocean. Could this tragedy have been avoided? The answer is YES. It was later discovered that 3 days before the terrible accident, the ship’s operator received the first message that gigantic icebergs were on the ship’s path. But the ship’s operator simply ignored the message. Why? Well, he had been told that there was no way that the Titanic could sink, so why bother?
Over the next 3 days, 4 more urgent messages were received warning of the impending danger but the same thing happened- No one paid attention! As a matter of fact, even after the ship finally rammed an iceberg which cut a gash 300 feet long and the ship started sinking, many people refused orders to go to lifeboats. Why should they obey? They heard that the Titanic was unsinkable! Testimony later revealed that the lifeboats could actually have saved 500 more passengers. The people who died unnecessarily from the Titanic disaster were locked into wrong thinking because they simply followed the crowd and refused to exercise independent thinking. It was the blind leading the blind.
