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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Absurdly wealthy people doing absurdly dangerous things. It's like a billionaire crashing their Ferrari while speeding. It is sad, just like anyone losing their life well before their time. But I kind of feel worse for the guy in a Honda Civic who dies in a routine commute to work just trying to scrape by, or any random person that gets killed just doing normal everyday things. I am sure some ultra-wealthy people are nice, but spending $250k for some vain thrill experience, the cost of which is offensive to normal people, it's hard to feel too bad.
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So if you got that wealthy and did activities that a person in that bracket could afford (because that's naturally what one would do) you're saying it should erase the inherent value of your life or sympathy that it warrants if you happened to die because your activities are offensive to people who don't have access to them?
The funny part is that not an insignificant portion of those knocking it would probably entertain the idea in their shoes, given the 100% success rating the company had prior. If 250 grand was pennies to you what sort of activities would you entertain? I bet many of them would be questionable to the general populous.
It's in human nature to push limits and take risks. Otherwise everest wouldn't be littered with the dead.
Also almost everybody makes mistakes and puts their trust in people and opportunities that they shouldn't have. Unfortunately for them, this mistake cost them their lives.
We don't have to manufacture sympathy if it's not there but loss of human lives deserves some kind of baseline of respect at the very least, knowing that even rich people have families too.
But I digress.