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Pretty sure it was the “climbing Mt Everest” part that cost a life, not their stupid marketing copy.

So, someone paid money to someone, and it resulted in someone dying. Why do you think that's okay exactly?

A consenting adult pays another consenting adult with more experience to do a life threatening task together. One dies. How is this not okay? What are you expecting? For people to never climb Mt Everest again?

In the USA, it's illegal for me to pay you to kill yourself. The issue isn't as cut and dry as legality anyway. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's morally justifiable. So yeah, there is a world view where paying people money to risk their lives to advertise your buttcoin is immoral.

>So yeah, there is a world view where paying people money to risk their lives to advertise your buttcoin is immoral.

So there's legit no reason to pay someone to climb Mount Everest?

What about raising money? Is it still immoral? What about if that person was going to climb either way (which was also true in this situation)?

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