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Should you have respect for someone who took the easy way out? Like this guy had it fucking bad anyway.
If you want to respect someone, respect Captain Charles Butler McVay III. He commanded 1,196 men on the USS Indianapolis in WWII. The ship was sunk, the crew had to wait five days for rescue while sharks, dehydration, sleep deprivation, and nature ate at them. Only 316 men survived, including Captain McVay. The Navy needed a scapegoat to cover the incompetence shown by how long it took to rescue the Indy's survivirs, so they court-martialed McVay for frivilous charges. The only captain out of 700 destroyed vessels in WWII to recieve a court-martial. He was convicted of not "Zig Zagging", ergo placing his ship in danger. The commander of the Japanese sub who sank the Indianapolis testified that it would have made no difference as to whether they did the Zig Zag maneuver or not. Still, McVay retired four years after the conviction and was hounded and blamed by the family members of the dead sailors until he could take no more and committed suicide. Yeah, feel sorry for him if you want to waste time feeling sorry for someone you don't know.
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Robots, machines, mechanical beings
Automatic and synthetic, we have the means
To take control of this planet and the human race
With our electronic rhythms and the Armageddon Bass
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