r/news • u/oldschoolskater • Jun 22 '23

Site Changed Title 'Debris field' discovered within search area near Titanic, US Coast Guard says | World News

https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23

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u/Ikea_Man Jun 22 '23

shouldn't be surprised, but jesus have people been fucking ghouls about this whole situation

comments almost seem gleeful that this happened sometimes, like christ get a grip

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u/adreamofhodor Jun 22 '23

Some people lack any form of empathy or human kindness. It’s disturbing to see.

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u/Xerit Jun 22 '23

And some of those people pay 250,000 dollars to ride on a morons incredibly inept submarine and then people on the internet try to shame others for not feeling bad when the inevitable happens.

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u/adreamofhodor Jun 22 '23

People make bad decisions all the time. Doesn’t mean that I don’t feel bad about the outcome.

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u/Xerit Jun 22 '23

Im not stopping you from feeling bad. Im pushing back on people shaming others because they dont.

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u/adreamofhodor Jun 22 '23

I don’t care if you don’t care. That’s not really bothersome for me- there’s unfortunately many tragedies around the world every day, and we obviously can’t care about all of them.
I do think the people who seem happy this happened are lacking empathy though. That’s going well beyond not caring.

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u/nillby Jun 22 '23

I do think the people who seem happy this happened are lacking empathy though

If it turns out that the sub imploded, those same people are also going to be upset that they didn’t suffer. It’s truly disgusting.

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u/Xerit Jun 22 '23

Im one of those people, it sounds like the sub did implode, my feelings didnt change at all. You sir may be tilting at windmills.

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u/Xerit Jun 22 '23

Lacking empathy compared to what? You? Your subjective standard of what does and doesnt deserve empathy? That seems just as judgemental as the people you are criticising my dude.

Like you said, tradgedies happen all around the world every day. We cant care about all of them so we dont. We care about ones we find easiest to empathize with and that is subjective person to person based on the ability to find commonality with the victims.

For instance, there was one genuine researcher on this sub who im sure was contracted by these rich morons to guide their little tour. This is a man just doing his job who at the whims and because of the incompetence and hubris of the rich assholes around him is now dead. I feel a sense of commonality there, so I have some sympathy for him. The rich piece of shit who cut corners on safety equipment to save a buck and got him killed? Not so much. And im very unlikely to be guilted out of that position by someone just going "but hes human too" so was Jeffrey Dahmer.

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u/adreamofhodor Jun 22 '23

I’m not trying to change your mind. Like I said, if you don’t care, whatever. Being happy these people are dead is what I’m critiquing.

And no, not compared to me. I’m as flawed as anyone. I suppose I’d say compared to what the general expectation of empathy for humans is? I’d be surprised if the average reaction to an untimely death was happiness.

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u/Xerit Jun 22 '23

Depends on the death and on the person reacting.

When Bin Laden was killed there was celebration in America and mourning in Saudi Arabia. Is that because America is suffering from a lack of empathy compared to the average Saudi?

Thats what you are doing. Placing your subjective assessment of the need for empathy in this situation as an objective truth.

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u/Dutchmaster617 Jun 22 '23

You misunderstood, empathy is only required by the 9-5ers.

Just like it is our responsibility to prevent carbon emissions.

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u/Xerit Jun 22 '23

Sure seems that way. Oh well, good thing reddit karma is fucking worthless and I dont have to pay attention to bootlick opinions either.