I have pity for the workers...at least some of them....My issue is that according to accounts I've read/heard (I can find sources if someone would like), there were signs of impending trouble that were ignored - The mud wasn't stable when they blew it off, indications of air pockets, etc...Those signs were ignored in the interest of time, speed, or just flat carelessness. Given the amount of damage that's being done, the scale of how this will effect the Gulf Coast Region (La through FL), and possibly a lot more people for decades - I have a hard time feeling bad for them when this wasn't a fluke accident. It was preventable.
I mean, I took high school field trips to these beaches to do conservation and research, I've canoed and hiked if not in these swamplands, then in similar ones. I took my students to nearby swamps to do restoration work. I know these marshes and wetlands are the things that protect our cities from tropical weather - our levees and the midwest farming has already done so much to them and now this...I know people who work in these industries (tourism, culinary, shipping and oil - don't know any fishermen myself, but I certainly have many friends of friends). The FL and AL beaches that are going to be destroyed - those were my childhood vacation spots, so for now...
Now there's probably a perfectly reasonable and just argument that I should feel bad for the workers and that on-site and corporate management are the "villains" here who rushed things...but I'm just not ready to be there yet. I still tear up or get raging anger when I think about the whole fiasco. I know I should feel bad for the actual workers who were injured or lost their lives - but I just don't.
Hopefully I'll get there...