Dumb risks are worth taking
The plight of the Titanic submariners has engulfed the media over the past week and demanded the attention of countless rubberneckers to catastrophe. Parts of that attention are due to morbid curiosity, or the ghoulish nature of social media's animosity toward the super rich; those who Ben Dreyfuss terms "the abnormal people" on his Substack: "They heard the news, read the stories, took in all of the information that made you sad, and their first reaction was: anyone who can afford a $250k tourist trip deserves to die." But another slice of attention is due, at least in part, to the audacious nature of their chosen craft.
