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5 billionaires went down with the Titan!
The fact that they were super-rich doesn’t mean they were not human beings, does it?
However, the reaction of most people was that if people could be so rich as to spend a whopping $250,000 to take a dive into the ocean to explore the wreck of a ship that sank more than a century ago, then they deserved whatever they got.
The British passenger liner, RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. Out of about 2,224 people aboard, over 1,500 died.
Our reaction to the consequences of the Titan shows the dwindling humaneness in us. It shows that man rather than being primus inter pares among animals is now the lowest of the low.
There’s no doubt about the fact that migrants could do with better treatment wherever they find themselves, especially in Europe, but does that remove our feelings for fellow human beings who died in the mishap?
So how are we different from men in the Hobbesian State of Nature? The English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes said the state of nature is characterized by the war of every man against every man. Therefore, human life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
We only tend towards self-preservation.
Are we by any means different from miscreants who go looking for the property of survivors of motor accidents rather than saving the survivors of the accidents?
Indeed, are we in any way better than vultures who feed on the carcass of other dead animals?
I thought there used to be a saying that dogs don’t eat dogs. Our world has so degenerated that we are sadly being shorn of our very humanity.
Welcome to the world of the lowest animals.
I foresee dangerous times ahead!
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