• ATGM 🚀@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    We have to choose where to spend the limited material and human resources we have.

    These people made their own bed. Those rescue resources were wasted on them. Don’t kid yourself that poor people in a boat accident would’ve got a 10th of that attention.

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      The US military spends 2 trillion a year. I’d much rather see those resources go into rescue operations than the opposite. Poor people in a boat should absolutely get access to the same resources, and the crime here is not that billionaires did, but that the migrants didn’t.

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        These weren’t people on the job, or people doing anything remotely necessary. This was a joy trip for spoiled richies, and I don’t see any justification for spending societal effort on it.

        Not to mention rescue was most likely doomed from the start considering how far beyond the depth of any successful rescue, ever, that this was.