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Cruise ships are like diamond jewelry. Terrible products from terrible industries where the purveyors and customers are equally selfish and culpable.

aaron695 7y ago
No they are not. Cruise ships are giant floating cities that travel the world. They are engineering marvels. You constantly see them in science fiction except in other settings, because they are amazing. A diamond is an amazing rock, but just a rock at the end of the day, with an industry selling something it's not. You're X is probably made from the same "terrible industries" as either of those example. That is a global issue around poverty which leads to the environment, nothing particular to those industries.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
  There will have been a lot of specialized infrastructure and resources to find that diamond and then refine it into a ring, but really, just because something is an engineering marvel means it's not terrible. If I built the most advanced baby smacker, capable of targeting and smacking babies from orbit doesn't mean it's a good idea. All told cruise ships seems like an excellent example of modern wastefulness, polluting more than all the cars in Europe and serving no real purpose to justify their gross excess.
- rswail 7y ago
  They are not engineering marvels, they are polluting, their fuel is inefficient and incredibly dirty. They are ecologically damaging dumping their waste in the oceans and at mooring points, their anchorages causing incredible seabed degradation. The companies that own and run them register in tax havens and avoid responsibility for the safety of staff, passengers or the communities they use.
  - oiasdjfoiasd 7y ago
    Lol, none of what you just said refutes the fact that they are engineering marvels. Anyone that has been on a cruise ship can appreciate the magnitude and scale of engineering, logistics, etc. that went into it.
molszanski 7y ago
Comparing cruise ships to diamonds is wrong. It is cruel, unjust and unfair to diamonds. At least its carbon products are shiny and sparkly

aaron695 7y ago

No they are not. Cruise ships are giant floating cities that travel the world. They are engineering marvels. You constantly see them in science fiction except in other settings, because they are amazing. A diamond is an amazing rock, but just a rock at the end of the day, with an industry selling something it's not. You're X is probably made from the same "terrible industries" as either of those example. That is a global issue around poverty which leads to the environment, nothing particular to those industries.

SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
There will have been a lot of specialized infrastructure and resources to find that diamond and then refine it into a ring, but really, just because something is an engineering marvel means it's not terrible. If I built the most advanced baby smacker, capable of targeting and smacking babies from orbit doesn't mean it's a good idea. All told cruise ships seems like an excellent example of modern wastefulness, polluting more than all the cars in Europe and serving no real purpose to justify their gross excess.
rswail 7y ago
They are not engineering marvels, they are polluting, their fuel is inefficient and incredibly dirty. They are ecologically damaging dumping their waste in the oceans and at mooring points, their anchorages causing incredible seabed degradation. The companies that own and run them register in tax havens and avoid responsibility for the safety of staff, passengers or the communities they use.
- oiasdjfoiasd 7y ago
  Lol, none of what you just said refutes the fact that they are engineering marvels. Anyone that has been on a cruise ship can appreciate the magnitude and scale of engineering, logistics, etc. that went into it.

molszanski 7y ago

Comparing cruise ships to diamonds is wrong. It is cruel, unjust and unfair to diamonds. At least its carbon products are shiny and sparkly