Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-5959298-20170317090733/@comment-366087-20170413154852

He let one through. Had the men been orderly and followed instructions, he could have let other women and children through.

Look, the Titanic was a, pardon the pun, a shipwreck. The ship itself was unprepared for the emergency as there were far too few lifeboats since the concept of the "unsinkable" sinking was not anticipated.

So not enough lifeboats for passengers, combined with panic people swarming the decks and overloading the available lifeboats so that some of them sank…

It is not an easy thing to have to stand your ground in a crisis like that, knowiing that you might be condemning some to die so that others may have a chance to live.

One thing is, as that movie depicted him, his actions were not out of malice. Not Wicked Doing Evil. It was a terrible situation, no doubt, and many, many people died that night. But had he let those passengers add to the ones already swarming the decks, it would have endangered the lives of others.

In addition, you cannot single him out when he was not the only one holding the gate. The use of a gun does not automatically make a person a villain. Stewards are given guns just for situations like that.