I wonder, if his ghost could talk to us now, I’d he would have done anything differently.

Maybe that seems like an absurd question to ask because... he’s dead. But his position seems to be: some things can never happen unless someone just risks it.

And that math doesn’t really change with the knowledge “he dies”. It’s possible there are some alternative timelines out there where “he risks it and survives” and maybe there are zero timelines where “he plays it safe and makes it to the Titanic” and if that’s the case then maybe he did it exactly as he intended.

There are many pursuits like this: mountaineering, car racing, etc, where the choices (at a certain level of aspiration anyway) are: A) risk death or B) don’t do it.

I’m certainly not risking death, but I don’t really judge people who do.

I do judge that dad who convinced his teenage son to risk his life. That was absolutely evil.