Don’t you realize that all those people who were not injured in any way deserve to be given millions of dollars? for some reason...
They should have at least offered 50% off! and re-pay them their ticket price—and pay funeral expenses for those who lost their lives.
It was not anything that could be judged an Act of God or an Act of Nature. It was the actions of the man that Costa hired to run the ship. They chose poorly. Things like that have to be paid for.
Cruise ship passengers don’t strike me as adrenaline junkies, I imagine that more than a few little old ladies, kids and moms and others, may never want to sail again. This was nasty business.
Offering them a chance to try again at 30% off, as soon as they can find all the bodies and get the dead buried, and replace the sunken ship, seems to reveal a management that is out of touch with reality.
Everone's life was put at risk through negligence. If someone put you, or your family members, lives at risk - real risk, as in there is a genuine possibility that they might die, and no one knows if they will - and then they don't nor is there any physical or apparent mental or emotional injury, is there any harm from the imposition of the negligent risk to their lives, per se?
1st Hint: YES.
2nd Hint: It is PRESUMED to exist because of the legitimacy of the threat.
3rd Hint: Imagine society and law if such a presumption was NOT made.