*UPDATE* May I have a word about the Surfside Building Collapse

[ShazzieB]

79. Maybe "blame" is the wrong word?

Perhaps "responsibility" would be a more acceptable term?

Either way, it seems to me that part of the process of figuring out "what went wrong" includes determining what decisions/errors may have been made that led to this happening, and IF it is determined that errors/faulty decisions were involved, that inevitably leads to the question of who was responsible for such.

I agree that 1) it's way too early to start assigning blame here, 2) jumping to conclusions about the responsibility for this is WAY WAY premature, and 3) a bunch of random people on a message board are not qualified to do that even IF we had access to all the pertinent information, which literally NO ONE has at this point.

The time WILL come for that, eventually. Just imagine all the insurance claims and lawsuits that will come out of this. All of those insurance companies and lawyers are going to be very interested in establishing what entity/ies bear(s) responsibility for this (i.e., who's "to blame" ), and I'm sure the courts will be very busy for a while sorting all that out.

I absolutely agree that right now is NOT the time for jumping to conclusions about blame and we here at DU are definitely NOT qualified to do that. But there will come a time for establishing blame/responsibility, make no mistake.