88. Scapegoating
It is nearly always easier to make
someone take the fall and move on after a disaster than go through the trouble
of forming a commission of inquiry and figuring out what actually happened.
Even after a commission of inquiry has been formed and come to conclusions,
open questions may remain. Depending on how corruption or busy the
administrators of the system or country in question are, they may avoid seeking
out the real sources of the problem, setting the stage for it to happen
again—only worse next time.