@Okanogen
eating the rich isn't fun--it's necessary.

as i've said elsewhere, rescue and aide should be a service for everyone on land or sea. the fact that countries can agree to this for international waters but not on their own land is ludicrous and the truly ghoulish thing.

if I had to choose an end - paying 250K to die instantly in a sub and then get heralded around the world as an explorer and genius and all around great chap would definitely outweigh dying slowly from a treatable disease that I can't afford meds for and then get constantly told that it's my fault for not bootstrapping my way up. That's fucking ghoulish.

as for ghoulish:

ghoulish is what happens to the poor who can't get food and are told it's their fault.

or the sick who can't afford treatment and are told it's their fault.

or any of the countless people who aren't blessed to be "normal" in this world and then discriminated against, hurt, killed, looked down on, etc.

ghoulish isn't critiquing 5 people that died in a trash can of hubris. nor is it about critiquing the world's response to them.

the fact that i'm supposed to hold my hat and wipe my eyes for these people without critiquing their fucking actions and their relationship with the broader world is ridiculous.