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So, you turn diving down to the Titanic into a tourist business..what could go wrong?

ScarySpikes said:
This is a pretty weird take, gotta be honest.
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I feel for you, man! You're a saint to bear that grief.


Eldritch said:
Is it? Seems perfectly normal to me. A person actively studying human mortality rates and causes with regular updates very quickly realizes how statistically trivial death is for humans.

Somewhere around 185,000 humans die every single day with a great many of them not being as a direct result of old age (Auto Accidents and Diarrhea being leading causes in most Top 10 counts).

Maintaining that informed perspective, it seems legit to feel like getting worked up over just 6 people who died that you didn't know at all or have any association with seems a little over the top.

Like, not to say it isn't tragic for the people left behind by them, but is also as normal as sunshine and rain for humans to die to hard circumstances.

I mean, globally, a child or youth under the age of 24 dies every 5 seconds on Earth.
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Totally this.
 
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I don't buy it, no one on BARF says "People die all the time" when a biker dies in a crash. We all know that people die in all kinds of ways every day. Sometime it just strikes a nerve with different people.
 
Hurr durr 1800 nineteen years old die everyday, do you guys feel sad for all of them?!? Hurr durr.

Hurr durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Barfiopaths. Is that a word?
 
Any person that dies of anything other than old age is is a tragedy. Some of us have the ability to empathize. A few of us are clearly way too :cool
 
James Cameron and Bob Ballard both said that sub should have never been taken that deep. It didn't go through the normal certification for deep submersibles and used a basically untested carbon fiber hull. They knew some of the people onboard

Mad
 
Bubba_s said:
Any person that dies of anything other than old age is is a tragedy. Some of us have the ability to empathize. A few of us are clearly way too :cool
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My God! So many tragedies just in the last ten minutes. Shattering, just shattering.
 
Maddevill said:
James Cameron and Bob Ballard both said that sub should have never been taken that deep. It didn't go through the normal certification for deep submersibles and used a basically untested carbon fiber hull. They knew some of the people onboard

Mad
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“Safety is just pure waste.” - Stockton Rush CEO of OceanGate : |
 
Have we devolved to where we now are free to make fun of folks showing empathy in what is now an RIP thread?

Not a good look.
 
afm199 said:
My God! So many tragedies just in the last ten minutes. Shattering, just shattering.
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We've never met, but if I heard you perished in some unnatural way, I'd be sad. It wouldn't crush me but I'd spend some time reflecting on you and your old codger ass. :laughing
 
Bubba_s said:
We've never met, but if I heard you perished in some unnatural way, I'd be sad. It wouldn't crush me but I'd spend some time reflecting on you and your old codger ass. :laughing
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Old and wrinkled, can post a pic!

Thanks, me too, were the situation reversed.
 
More often than not, I think it comes down to people asking themselves "Is that how I'd want to go?"

Is that empathy, selfishness, or selfish empathy? :dunno
 
Johndicezx9 said:
More often than not, I think it comes down to people asking themselves "Is that how I'd want to go?"

Is that empathy, selfishness, or selfish empathy? :dunno
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yeah could be all of those. or perhaps just the simple reminder that our own existence will end. Some express that as compassion, and some express it...differently.
 
Bowling4Bikes said:
yeah could be all of those. or perhaps just the simple reminder that our own existence will end. Some express that as compassion, and some express it...differently.
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Clearly all RIP threads should be banned.

Even those for pets.
 
In terms of ways to die, this was probably, as tragic as it was, about as humane as you can get, they would likely have ceased to exist without ever having any awareness that it happened.
 
GAJ said:
Have we devolved to where we now are free to make fun of folks showing empathy in what is now an RIP thread?

Not a good look.
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We can make fun of folks for showing empathy for a bunch of poor brown people who died after being forced to make an impossible choice.

But if you don't show empathy and instead make fun of some uber rich people who ignored glaring safety issues and decided to take a ride on a home made deep sea submarine so they could treat a shipwreck 2 miles under water like a tourist attraction, that's frowned upon.

BARF is an interesting place like that.
 
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