I mean like even if someone is for example criminal or scumbag they are still human and hoping for someone to die or make jokes of someone’s loss of life isn’t right. Or does someone think it is justified? I think it’s morally wrong.

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    I dunno. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes right? Don’t get me wrong, it’s still tragic what happened to most of those people, but I don’t have much sympathy.

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      I’m with you. I make fun of people who walk off of cliffs while trying to get that perfect selfie. Individually, it’s very sad. But they were also excessively stupid.

      Added to this is that the occupants of the sun are not, on any way, sympathetic individuals. They weren’t doing it to feed their family, or to flee oppression, or to advance scientific knowledge. They were people so rich they paid ten years of normal-people wages for a joyride to look at a ship that is the graveyard from a hundred year old tragedy. And the leader was a fake-it-till-you-make-it slimy, rich businessman who lied about his abilities and contacts and flaunted every regulation put in place to keep people safe.

      I also make light of it because my job, as a licensed professional engineer, is to make sure the places people live and work are safe. Safe in a hurricane. Safe in an earthquake. Safe in a blizzard. Safe when they’re dancing with friends in a nightclub. I see people- businessmen with greater love for money i their pocket then their respect for the lives of others- try and skirt the regulations which are written in the blood of people from our past. I fucking hate people like Stockton Rush because he’s a danger to himself and others and he lies and uses his family’s amassed wealth to circumvent the very process which attempts to give everyone a fighting chance. I can be sad for the son who was rightfully scared to go, or for the explorer who may have been duped as to the crafts safety but I’m personally thrilled that Rush is no longer living on this earth and am sad that his death, in particular, may have been painless.

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      Yeah I get your point and get it that people don’t maybe have sympathy for them, bur making fun of anyone’s dead crosses the line, at least for me.

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        Ah, that’s because you’re a decent human being with a conscience! I guess it depends on what you consider “making fun” of them. For me, I would want to make sure I’m being respectful to those who are now grieving., but ridiculing the stupidity and hubris of some of those involved seems fair game to me.

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          Agreed. Shame about the kid, though, apparently he didn’t even want to be there but was forced.

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            I wondered that about him right away. I told my husband it wouldn’t surprise me if the kid went because his dad wanted him to.

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        You’re making fun of dead people too. Ever made a joke about the Titanic? Or some war related joke? Or AIDS? COVID?

        Are these lives somehow less important, because they died decades ago? Or because they were anonymous?

        The reality is, that each day thousands of people die. And we don’t care. And that’s okay to a certain degree. Why are these randos above being joked about?

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          I think you have a great point. Maybe we aren’t so aware of thing we say these days.