5 Show offs playing underwater

64 wrote:

Why don’t these billionaires just “pull them selves up by their bootstraps”?

What has someone’s wealth got to do with it? What’s wrong with being billionaire?

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Just Iron

I object to the word “tragedy”.
Wealthy people who spunk fortunes away to purposely put their lives at risk as well as the people who are attempting to rescue them.
A tragedy is the people who were needlessly killed in Nottingham, a tragedy is the dozens of people killed at the Manchester arena bombing, a tragedy is the deaths of nearly a hundred football fans at Hillsborough.

Iron-awe wrote:

You object all you want, anyone losing their life needlessly whatever the cause is a tragedy IMO.

Define your use of the word “needlessly” in this incident please.

From everything I have read about this case so far it is evident that they have been ill prepared, stupid and using an ill fitted vessel. Stupid decisions aren’t crimes worthy of death and their lives still mean something. A tragedy is defined as an event which caused great suffering, destruction or distress. I fail to see how this falls out of that.

64 wrote:

Live blanket news coverage.Name one child out of the hundreds that died fleeing poverty in the med last week without searching Google or such like .Sickening

True, the sub gets more coverage than migrants because it’s sensational – there’s a Titanic connection, there are very wealthy people on-board, it’s deep underwater and the world is rushing to help… it’s a big story with massive public interest for all those reasons.

But, the fact is that all those in dire circumstances deserve our sympathy. It doesn’t have to be one and not the other.

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