Hi Trevor and Gordon,
I agree, it is sad we pay so much attention to this, and not to the deaths of hundreds of refugees fleeing oppression…
But - it’s that old saying…
Dog bites man - that’s not newsworthy… But
Man bites dog - that’s NEWS!
Refugees are dying every year, maybe every day…
But billionaires spending a quarter of a million each to see the Titanic… Who go missing… You don’t see that every day…
I look at it from a dopamine point of view…
Novelty stimulates dopamine… And we love the stimulation… (It’s human nature…)
We are always attracted to the NOVEL and the NEW…
I keep a file of such “unusual news” just to dip into every now and then…
Back to the sub…
It sounds like it was an immediate death. A rescue, of course, is better… But at least there was probably little to no suffering…
Dien
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Originally Posted by trevord92
Everday stuff doesn't get reported much because it's common.
Outlandish stuff gets reported.
Maybe it's also a bit of the adventurer in us, wishing we'd been on the cutting edge of exploration, although personally the idea of being in a cramped space looking through murky waters at a wreck doesn't appeal.
But (callously?) there's probably a marketing lesson hiding behind the sad headlines.
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