Not gonna shed a tear given how avoidable this entire tragedy was, and how terribly managed and selected his engineering team was.
So much hand wringing and I've seen about two whole comments talking about the boat that sank carrying 100x as many people while this saga was unfolding.
How is it dehumanizing for me to not care about one, when virtually no one gave a single shit about the hundreds of non-wealthy people dying?
For me all human life is precious and equally worthy of effort to save, as well as sympathy and grief for their loss. I suppose that's not your position, but I don't quite understand what it is.
"Equally worthy of effort" - ironic because the amount of money spent trying to save these 5 people could save hundreds or thousands of times as many people. But I don't see people clamoring for equality in helping the disenfranchised.
The hypocrisy is staggering.
Here it's off-topic to talk about the sunk ship and the migrants that died. Here it's on topic to talk about the people on the sub that died. People should have empathy with both situations, but are much less likely to express it when they're frustrated by someone complaining about something off-topic.
At the same time we're being asked to support tax money going to search for these 5 risk tourists and being accused of ignoring their humanity when we simply point out the utter stupidity and greediness of their escapade.
Starving? Homeless? Too bad. We have so much money that we gotta blow it to go look at this thing over here instead.
Bill Gates has hubris because Bill Gates has a fuckton of wealth that he did nothing to directly earn. Merely having capital yields capital results.
You can also see in this thread people calling them "precious lives" as though that doesn't apply to the people making the ultimate sacrifice to try and bring their families to safety.
I have nothing against people being rich but it's frankly scary to see these refugees be dehumanised, framed as economic immigrants and become victim to to increasing legislation to keep them out of safety on the basis that we can't afford them using our resources when we suddenly have resources enough to spend on extensive missions to search for people who made bad decisions for fun and risked the lives of others for nothing but profit and fame.
If you want to call them refugees then take them home. They are economic migrants where “we” live.
And delegitimising all others forms of feedback and expression.
The US was a bit late to the game, but appears to have caught up quite well.
And while in Europe these people often first set sail for the western Balkans, it usually isn’t their destination.
I thought it wise to only mention those whose colonial history I knew about, and avoid exposing my whole point to criticism by over-extending myself.
Where are they sailing to that this doesn't cover? The recent example being spoken about in this thread was trying to make it to Italy, which has been involved in various conflicts in the middle east since the middle ages.
If you die doing something dumb, then yeah, people are gonna point that out.
If you die doing something dumb that you spent house money to do, the pointing out will be much more pointed.
To relate it to flying in an airplane, “If you take one flight a day, you would on average need to fly every day for 55,000 years before being involved in a fatal crash.”
I'll take those odds.
Take a deep dive in an experimental vessel with public safety concerns expressed over years, nope I'm out.
You sign similar waivers for all kinds of benign things - including amusement park tickets, concerts, skateboard parks, etc.
I have a feeling the safety of this contraption was grossly oversold to the passengers...
When you have to start putting that on coffee cups, it loses all meaning.