South Korean maritime disaster

Started by Bamyasi, April 20, 2014 02:41 AM

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April 20, 2014 02:41 AM Last Edit: April 20, 2014 02:51 AM by Bamyasi
Has this been bothering anyone else a lot recently? I know people die in scores weekly from natural disasters, civil wars and such, but this tragedy just seems so frivolous and avoidable. With the rise in population, one fuck-up on public transportation can lead to hundreds of deaths (not that this hasn't been the case for as many years). I don't know. I just think we live in much more barbarous times than we give ourselves credit for.

Maybe this also has a more personal impact on me because I only graduated high school two years ago, but it just seems like a really horrifying way to go. The same number of people died on that Malaysian flight, but we can assume that would have been much quicker (if it in fact crashed and wasn't highjacked/flown to some remote region where the passengers were executed).

Thoughts?

Edit: because I'm depressed and can't spell.

soup

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April 20, 2014 03:05 AM
i thought this was about that missing plane at first, which i guess goes hand in hand with your statement about dangerous public transportation

just reading about it now, what an awful event. reminds me of the italian cruise ship disaster, but that seemed to be down to just gross incompetence

"He was shown the smallness and tinsel emptiness of the little Earth gods, with their petty, human interests and connections - their hatreds, rages, loves and vanities; their craving for praise and sacrifice and their demands for faiths contrary to reason and nature."


"...it stimulates the part of the brain called "shatners-bassoon", and that's the bit of the brain that deals with...time perception..."

Bamyasi

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April 20, 2014 03:25 AM
The Costa Concordia only claimed 33 lives of the 4,252 on board, which is a horrific miracle compared to the Sewol.

This was the note the vice-principal wrote after apologizing to the families, before he hung himself by a tree:

Quote from: Kang Min-kyuWhile 200 (students) are dead or alive, it is too much for my strength to live alone.
Give me full responsibility. I was the one who carried forward with the class trip. Cremate my body and spread my ashes near the sunken boat site. In the afterlife, maybe I will be the teacher to the students whose bodies have not been found.
Source

rtil

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April 20, 2014 06:19 AM
i can't watch video on it because the media are always filming the grieving and won't leave them alone and it makes me feel like shit for watching their suffering

that being said, i hope the captain feels like shit. he will never get a punishment as fitting as having to spend the rest of his miserable old life with the fact that he caused all of this

michaell

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April 20, 2014 07:32 AM
i heard the headmaster of that secondary school whose students were on board committed suicide

south korean suicide rate is insane

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