i still think about the titan submersible. tragic loss of life, definitely. i feel especially for the nineteen year old boy and his father.
i also think about the boat of migrants, 500 or so, who died off the greek coast. we don’t know the exact number and most of their bodies were never recovered.
the usa and canada spent so much money to try and find these five men on the submersible, so much airtime was given to them, an outpouring of support and sympathy, and so much empathy, so much empathy for these people, who must’ve been cold and scared at the bottom of the ocean before they died quite suddenly and according to the experts, completely painlessly.
on the other hand, the greek coast guard is being charged with neglect because nobody had any empathy for the poor desperate men on that boat, fleeing pakistan, palestine, syria, egypt. no effort to save them, not much airtime, no outpouring of support, and of course no empathy for these men, who were presumably also cold, and scared, and died quite horribly in the ocean when their boat sank.
there might’ve been a hundred children on that boat, all of whom died. we don’t know, and there’s not enough care or will to find out. there’s also not enough care or will to prosecute the coast guard for this entirely preventable sinking.
