Most of us (sadly not all of us) realise that the country is going to the dogs. Not sure who is ultimately responsible for this, but I suppose the last two governments (Conservative and Labour) have a lot to do with it. But clearly there are posters who actually think what happened is perfectly reasonable - not many, thank goodness. But those that do are party to the problem, and I am afraid we are on a runaway train, and whilst they may be in the minority right now, in 10 years time they will be in the majority. We will probably have to have a major world catastrophe with massive mortalitities and starvation before people in this country start to get their values sorted out.
So given this situation, did the Captain make the right or wrong decision? The wrong one, because we should all do whatever we can to arrest this decline of common sense (actually, an elemination of common sense) whenever we can. This takes guts. We should encourage people to DO THE RIGHT THING, and support them when they do.