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> This is such an amazingly delicious piece of schadenfreude. It doesn't work out that way for me due to the deaths of passengers that had no responsibility fo
by dale_glass 2y ago
> This is such an amazingly delicious piece of schadenfreude.
It doesn't work out that way for me due to the deaths of passengers that had no responsibility for anything here, and whose only mistake was trusting Rush too much.
- nathan_compton 2y agoSchadenfreude precludes not true horror or sadness. But if I felt true horror or sadness at every event which warranted it I would have killed myself a long time ago, assuming I could keep up with the astronomical accounting entailed in keeping track of them all. The world is a grotesque suffering engine, you may have noticed. Let us savor schadenfreude where we can, I say.
- Pxtl 2y agoI feel genuinely awful for the 19-year-old boy who was in that suicide-tube just to please his father. His whole life, which would've been a happy one of wealth and freedom, snuffed out because of these utterly stupid risks. But for Rush himself? He deserves all the posthumous mockery and jeering he gets and more. He was quite literally too stupid to live. Everybody else in that boat is on a spectrum of "you had more means than anybody else in the world to know this was extremely unsafe and you're part of a political class that by-and-large celebrates libertarianism so there's some irony and culpability here but still it's sad that you trusted a guy and he murdered you with utter incompetence".