Titanic submersible es morte

0rion said
My problem really is it's just a horrible way to think and says a lot about someone's character when they're openly willing to celebrate someone's death because they're wealthy. How would it be viewed if I was said I was glad those 10-15k people starved based on the argument they were poor drains on society that had nothing to offer? I don't think that way but to me that's the exact same thing as celebrating someone's death because they were rich. I'm guessing pretty much all of them didn't know any of these people personally so they knew nothing about them other than they had money. I've personally known 2 people that I would consider probably close to the same tax bracket as these people and both were nice family men that were friendly.

That’s fair - but I don’t think it’s about being friendly. There are 770 billionaires in the US, out of 330 million people. I believe you that you’ve personally known two people close to that range of wealth but it’s highly unlikely. I think it’s also true that I think it’s pretty rare for the accumulation of that kind of wealth without there being some along the way who were manipulated or cheated or defeated in some way - the idea of a completely innocent and altruistic billionaire is likely a myth.

At the same time, it’s still wrong to actually cheer someone’s death or feel like they deserved it. That is 100 percent agreed.

I’m just saying that the sentiment isn’t difficult to understand that some may find it absurd that these people would spend who knows what to make their way to St. John, Newfoundland (probably on a private jet) to pay $250K a head to board a vessel to travel 3,500 miles and then descend to 12k feet, a full 10K below the operational depth of any modern naval vessel, on an experimental craft to personally view the 110 year old wreckage of a ship where 1,500 people lost their lives.

There’s an element of absurdity here that I think allows people to look past the human tragedy of it and be cynical. Not all the different from when the rich guy travels to Africa to hunt a lion and becomes the lion’s prey.