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No amount of poor decision making changes the fact that several precious human lives were lost. Frustration over the company's potential negligence and sadness
by carbine 3y ago
No amount of poor decision making changes the fact that several precious human lives were lost. Frustration over the company's potential negligence and sadness over the loss of life can coexist.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y ago"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." "Please don't fulminate." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- carbine 3y agoWell I wouldn't agree with either position. Human life is human life, but I guess some people seem to believe that either poor OR wealthy people are less deserving of sympathy, care, and investment of resources. I happen to disagree, but you do you.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y agoI feel for them about as much as I do the ~100 people who died today in car accidents in the US. Most of whom were probably also doing reckless things. In a sane world we would do something about that, but people like Rush actively work against sanity in the name of profit, so here we are.
- ajmurmann 3y agoThank you for calling this out. It's also disheartening and quite frankly scary, to see how the passengers get dehumanized on other online platforms due to their wealth.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoI think people are angry when, as others have mentioned, there are more resources and international cooperation going into helping these 5 people who took a needless risk while we watch 100s dying regularly while they try to flee literal war ones in regions we've destabilised for years. 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.
- mirko22 3y agoWho’s we that destabilised these countries? Cos I bet you it’s is not the countries that they are sailing to. If you want to call them refugees then take them home. They are economic migrants where “we” live.
- hef19898 3y agoI live were those poor people try to go, and I call them refugees. I also say we, because as a voting citizen of one of those countries that did some of said destabilazing over the years, I cannot wash myself of all responsibility.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoPotential negligence? Dude fired the guy who was trying to get the hull checked for voids before doing crew testing. Then they sued him and proceeded to run this thing with passengers without bothering to do non-destructive testing. Sounds more Stockton Rush went well beyond negligence and straight to malfeasance to me.
- carbine 3y agoYou're probably right but I, like you, am a lurker on the internet and not in possession of every single fact, so I'm choosing my words.