Reply #1: There are several differences. [View All]

Captain Smith was overly confident (he had never reported an incident on his trips) but he was not a corrupt person, at least not that anyone knows. The tragedy of the Titanic can be blamed on a number of people, from the designers and the company that owned it who did not put enough lifeboats on board, to the telgraph operator who didn't hand the telegram warning of icebergs to the Captain in time, to the First mate who turned the boat the wrong way according to many historians to the other crew people who didn't fill the boats and on and on. It was a whole series of bad judgements and poor decisions. But there is no evidence that the tragedy was deliberate or premeditated. Can we say that about *? I would rather compare him to people more in his league--Hitler, Stalin, Jim Jones, and a number of others. I don't think Captain Smith's memory deserves comparison with a hoodlum like *.