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GI_X_JACK t1_jegt3db wrote

Reply to comment by DeficiencyOfGravitas in 'Rust' first assistant director David Halls sentenced in deadly on-set shooting by AudibleNod

No, the person most at fault is the person who set up shitty working conditions.

This is akin to someone dying in a forklift accident in a factory. It sounds like "tragic accident" until you hear how the boss was an asshole and skimped on safety measures, and ignored previous failures that could have resulted in death, but people got lucky, but then never changed anything to prevent it from happening again. Except it did, and then someone died.

And Alec Baldwin is the producer, co-writer of the script, and was responsible for running an unsafe, slipshod set. Its also somewhat infuriating as the man who's rep from his OWN union, was keen on hiring non-union scabs to break a strike.

We'll see what comes out in his trial, but unless people are making shit up, people are saying he violated every safety protocol both as producer and and ignored the safety brief as an actor as well. But again, we'll see who actually says what under oath.

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DeficiencyOfGravitas t1_jegtm0n wrote

> No, the person most at fault is the person who set up shitty working conditions. > >

If your boss tells you to do something dangerous, and you still do it, you are still responsible. Both people should be charged, but the person who actually did the dangerous thing is the most responsible.

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GI_X_JACK t1_jegvda6 wrote

The person with most amount of agency to say no is the most responsible. So person in charge.

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DeficiencyOfGravitas t1_jegvycp wrote

> The person with most amount of agency to say no is the most responsible

So the person actually doing the thing. You always have the agency to say no. To anything. At anytime. There may be consequences for saying no. But you are always able to do so.

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GI_X_JACK t1_jegz81s wrote

If you are on set as an actor. You have a reasonable assumption if you are handed a weapon, and you are told it is cold, that it is in fact cold, because of all the protocols to check it.

The people who did not follow those protocols are at fault. In this case, it loops back around because Baldwin was not just producer, but intimately involved with this production so much, he's in charge, and safety protocols where broken.

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