No comments yet on how the fluffy only had a vest and yet was ( initially ) okay at the summit? Heck, even at base camp there’s been humans that have suffered severely from high-altitude sickness ( and some even have died of that higher up on the mountain ), a mere fluffy would have not a chance in hell. Let alone even getting up on Everest without a hat ( granted the idiot could have taken it off for the photo and immediately lost it ).
Everest is such a strange place- the locals considered it a sacred place but its also now their main source of income. There’s literally piles of human waste, discarded oxygen bottles ( almost nobody ascends the mountain without supplemental oxygen because its so much harder without it ) and of course the bodies- though there’s been a few efforts in recent years to pack out as much of the trash as can be done. That and also thanks to the nearly year-long storms around the mountain, such things tend to get buried or fall down an ice cliff eventually.
I think that celebrating the loss of any human life, however evil or useless or unpleasant that person may have been, is wrong. All life is ultimately sacred, unless it’s the life of a fluffy.
That said, I feel significantly less distress over some retarded thrill-seeking elites getting instacrushed 12,500 feet under the ocean than I do over, say, a child dying of cancer.
And just because something is wrong doesn’t mean we don’t indulge from time to time.
True, since any idiot could tell it’s not a good idea, but I think we really ought to be concerned about the effect it’s having on the locals’ welfare.
I don’t. shrug
I don’t think the lives of everybody on the planet are sacred.
I think maybe they start that way, but sometimes along the journey they do something that makes that sacredness dissolve.
Cold-blooded, premeditated murder.
Child rape.
Dog fighting.
You might argue that violating the sacredness of another is the only crime that should result in you losing your own. Personally, I think these people should be deleted from existence, but we have yet to develop a truly impartial and infallible system for doing so.
Me, I go a step further . Billionaires, the kinds of people who do shit like climb mount Everest, or ride a rinky-dink un-certified submarine to gawk at the watery tomb of hundreds of innocents, are much the same to me.
You cannot become a billionaire without abusing and exploiting others. It is impossible. Anybody who is honest with themselves knows this.
Do I think they deserve the ultimate penalty?
No.
But I do think that any time one dies, even an ounce of pity or a single thought is too much to spend on them. The world is a better place without them.
This is also way too much thought to be given to anything posted of a MLP-derived torture porn fansite.
