For thousands of years, it was required of human beings to live in harmony with nature. Nature’s laws governed human behavior. If those laws weren’t followed, then human lives were lost. It has only been within the past couple hundred years that the attitudes towards nature’s laws have changed. With scientific discoveries, improving engineering practices, and industrialization human beings have begun exhibiting behavior which suggests they know better. The paradox in this collection of attitudes is that the rules have not changed, but the stakes are now much higher regarding the blatant disobedience to nature’s laws.