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@kortskalle @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti I hate the rich as much as the next person, but 'legally an adult' and being a kid aren't mutually exclusive. Life's much too confusing to figure out for someone at that age, he still had a LOT more to learn. Could have ended up being a better person than his dad.
I wouldn't call lacking empathy for the rich being a bad person, either. Most rich people are abhorrent. But he didn't get his money by owning slaves in cobalt mines or anything like that, he was just born to a more wealthy family than most. That's not his choice. We can't say whether he was a horrible person or not, because we have no way of knowing what he would have been like the older he got.
I'm not defending the rich here. I'm defending a kid who died because he wanted to make his rich, insensible dad happy.
@kortskalle @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Guess next time he should just be born into poverty, his fault for choosing his family 🤷♀️
And based on your replies here, I wholeheartedly believe that you haven't matured since age nineteen, so I can see your logic. But considering most peoples' brains aren't fully developed until mid twenties, there's a LOT of room for change.
Bottom line, I think it's sad that someone so young died. And I think it's absolutely despicable that the CEO of the company decided that his £250k joyride was more important than safety.
I hope you have a nice rest of your day.
@Ibex @7 @kortskalle @RadicalGraffiti you all are so fucked up. Twitter came full force here.
1. He did not want to go.
2. Everyone wants to have money, even me, coming from a low income family.
3. Being poor does not make you evil, your actions do.
I agree on tax the rich to death and all, but just saying he deserved it only for that is insane. Complete apathy.
@kortskalle @7 @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti
Feeling apathy for a narcissist is impossible once you learn they're being abusive.
My dad's family has lots of money. I hate all of them. I got a TBI as a teenager, and they delusionally ignored it happened. I was in a coma for 11 days, and my dad went on vacation to Disneyland in CA. How do you forgive that?
My sister stole my inheritance and put my nephews through college in California!
We're from Chicago!
@Jefiner68 @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Oh, I agree. The fact that being rich is even *possible* is bizarre to me, and I've seen firsthand how money changes people.
That being said, I still feel that having empathy for a kid dying (even a rich one) is just as acceptable of an opinion as having zero empathy for someone dying because they're rich and put themselves in that situation.
I won't say either side's wrong. I personally don't care for the CEO or any of the rest who were in that submarine. I just can't quite ignore the loss of somebody at such a young age. The fact that he only did it for his dad is even sadder to me.
@7 @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti
Good point! I was thinking yesterday that I'm becoming apathetic to others' struggles. But that's my listening to a person who has never had to struggle.
(My moms idea of struggling was to not get her way, and my sister is the exact same. I look and sound like mom, my sis got the good looks. But she pays for them, it's nat nature.)
It's all emotional and emotional thinking, isn't wise.
So mostly I think that's how MAGA keeps their base.
@Dss @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Being excited to pay $250,000 to jump into a submersible built by someone that purposely knows nothing about submersibles, whom advertises his services as "Safety is a waste", just so he could visit an underwater graveyard and play with a rubix cube on the way.
He had to sign a waiver to indicate he understood the risks and that no safety was guaranteed. The CEO sells it on not being certified or rated in any way. There was no need for him to go, it was to gawk at a wreck. The only reason people singled him out for sympathy AT ALL was that they were told he was forced to go against his will, and that was a damn lie.
@marsaeternum @Dss @RadicalGraffiti https://people.com/mom-titan-victim-son-gave-seat-7553082
Took 1 minute on Google.
The mother of 19-year-old 'Titan' submersible victim Suleman Dawood revealed Sunday that she gave him her seat on the doomed vessel — and that he took a Rubik's Cube with him to solve at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
@marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti The odd thing about that is that his mother gave up her seat to him because he apparently wanted to go so much, while it was his aunt that says he didn't want to go
I'm more inclined to believe his mother, who was there
@marsaeternum me too Mars. I cried for him because he was just beginning his life! He had a chance.
You know how they say that childhood neglect and abuse change our brain, and our brain doesn't stop growing until nineteen years old?
I think money has the same effect on adult brains. It changes people.