Azmeh Dawood told NBC News that her nephew only agreed to go on the expedition because it was important to his father
I make my teen son do crap all the time that he doesn’t want to. It builds character.
Edit: I mean cut the grass, wash the dishes, general crap like that. It’s not like I’m making him dive to the bottom of the ocean in a tin can. Although I do incourage him to try new things, that’s parenting.
It builds resentment. Kids are also humans with their own wants, goals, and dreams. Not yours.
My comment was meant to be somewhat sarcastic.
I was referring to making him do crap he doesn’t want to do as in chores and whatnot. Typical teenager stuff.
I appreciate that he is his own person but still strongly encourage him to try different things to see what sticks. In no way do I push him to follow my wants goals, or dreams. Parents who do that bug me too.
This whole “rich people’s problem” newscycle is about as newsworthy as the fact that I had eggplant parmesean for dinner.
I’ll give you a counterpoint, much as I also don’t care.
Usually a story like this would be incredibly sad. Similar stories about refugee ships sinking are awful and heartbreaking.
Most of this story is about rich people who signed up to do a phenomenally stupid thing with an incredibly, comically terrible person in charge. It’s actually more funny than tragic, and so people are able to read the story without feeling terrible after.
Caveat: I feel awful for this kid. Only sympathetic character I’ve seen so far.
Strangely, I consider both events - the submarine and the refugees - to be equally heartbreaking, in the sense that both are pointless losses of life that could have been avoided.
However, I also consider both events to be equally stupid - billionaires being cocky stupid, and the refugees being desperate stupid; the kind of stupid wherein we make bad decisions with likely bad outcomes, on the gamble that it’ll work.
Looking at it from a more emotional standpoint, I think I might be biased in that I feel like that there are a lot more important events occurring around us, that effect us in a much larger way, that simply gets swept under the rug by these types of “news” stories.
I’m not lacking sympathy for the kid’s loss. Losing a parent for most people is terrible. But I’m not going to feel any more sympathy towards them, than I would you - being a complete stranger to me. Certainly not because “news” tells me to. It would be fair to say that the thoughts and feelings I have towards the negative impact of what it takes to accumulate that sort of wealth override the casual sympathy for the submarine situation.
The refugee situation is a whole 'nother can of worms. But as desperate a move as it may have been for them, I do in fact respect them for taking that risk for what I’ll assume to be trying to have a better life. That takes some amount of courage, so as individuals it’s mainly sympathy. Long way about it, those in the submarine represent why there’s a refugee situation.
As far as the eggplant parmesean goes, while I regret to inform you that it wasn’t fresh from a garden, I can make it up to you and vouch that the “heat n eat” in the frozen section at Aldi’s is pretty okay.
I feel worse about the refugees as they are just trying ti move somewhere to survive and have a better life. These people went on a giant ego trip. They are not the same.
That sucks. I hope they sort some more regulation on this kind of thing, I’m all for freedom to do stupid shit, but I feel like the CEO here took advantage of people who trusted him. People do need protecting from themselves.
The regulations did exist, but the CEO/company just ignored/sidestepped them (and was quoted as complaining about them being onerous).
I don’t know much about it, but from what I saw on the news there isn’t regulation exactly. There’s guidelines which he chose not to follow, but he was free to do that.
Technically, they don’t require any certifications in international waters, and that’s how he side stepped it. The glass was only rated for 1300m. The sub was only rated for 3000m. (Titanic sits about 4000m) They built it from carbon fiber which is good under tension, but terrible under compression… The lack of engineering in this thing was astounding and I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did.
