Dan4t

It's not just management. Employees choose to ignore safety protocols like this all the time, even when they know the risks. It's hard to explain, but setting up safety stuff feels like a major chore. More so than regular productive tasks. There is no potential carrot/reward for safety. Only the avoidance of the stick.

You familiar with the Broken Window Fallacy?

Plus, terrorism still existed back then. It went from terrorism + nuclear threat, to just terrorism.

Well, your congressman/woman needs to know what you want in order to represent you. That's what a lobbiest does. Takes the time you don't have to express what you want in a more articulate and persuasive way.

Americans have it pretty good by comparison, so we consider more things evil due to our higher expectations.