Not all empathy is good. Don’t waste it on people who wouldn’t slow down if they ran you over.

  • patchymoose
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    1 year ago

    It wasn’t sympathy for the passengers that made the story interesting to me. It was the absolute shamelessness with which that CEO disregarded safety, fired people who tried to make it safe, cut corners, lied to reporters about “partnering with Boeing” (they debunked it today), and on and on.

    The guy was a huge piece of shit, and I hope that his company gets sued into oblivion so that some sort of precedent is set for other companies that try to use international waters for their malfeasance.

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      It was the absolute shamelessness with which that CEO disregarded safety, fired people who tried to make it safe, cut corners, lied to reporters about “partnering with Boeing” (they debunked it today), and on and on.

      In unrelated news, Elon Musk looking for anyone wanting to go to Mars.

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        I mentally separate SpaceX from the pissbaby these days. Because the people working there are actual fucking geniuses. They are paving the way to make access to space more affordable with re-usability. We need that. Elon can fuck off though.

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          Unwise. Elon is in charge. All of those actual fucking geniuses are there at his pleasure and may be fired at his whim.

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            Many beautiful things are fragile, or hold the seeds of their toxicity and decay. Doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy them while they last.

            So long as Space-X is doing good(which likely coincides with Musk being otherwise distracted) I’ll be rooting for them to do more. When the bubble breaks, it breaks.

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    1 year ago

    I have sympathy for the son as he (allegedly) did not want to go on the trip but felt that because it was important to his father, he had to go.

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    1 year ago

    I would argue that having empathy for another human is what sets me apart from them. but i understand your disdain for them.

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      1 year ago

      I really appreciate your comment. I feel the same way. I feel I can accept both that they were victims of their own hubris, and were other people suffering. Those notions do exist together no matter how I feel about the ultra rich.

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    1 year ago

    No one cares when some rich asshole dies having a sherpa help them up Mt. Everest. We shouldn’t, and i dont know anyone who does, care about these rich sightseers to a mass grave.

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    1 year ago

    We have a tendency to conflate a person’s life with a person’s traits and impact, which brings about an unnecessary moral grey area when a shitty person bites the dust.

    Dude was a parasite on humanity. His greed was a boot on the neck for all but a select few. Him dying obviously means we lost a human life - no one’s celebrating that; but it also represents the excision of a parasite and relief from the damage he caused, and THAT is absolutely a good thing!

    Now if the other oligarchs would just follow in his steps…

  • 8InchRichard@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I’ve no empathy for them and have been loving those memes, but tbh I wonder about the people who’ve been actively counting down the hours until their death and celebrating it.