Much to say. First, well done. As another commenter said, funny and compassionate. Plus you identified issues that are worthy of much discussion.
Let's start with the inequality of response to disasters and who pays for the millions of dollars spent to attempt the rescue. Two recent NYT articles cover those. I'll provide gift links at the bottom. The first covers the sinking of the overcrowded migrant boat in Greece's waters and how for days the authorities had decided not to offer any assistance and only when it sank did they issue a distress call to which, ironically, a superyacht responded and rescued 100 of the 750 migrants from the water.
Regarding karma, karma may very well have been at play here but not in the way that the jokesters use it nor in the manner of the vast number of people who believe karma is a reward and punishment system use it, which it is not. As DL Nemeril wrote and I quote and discuss in my https://medium.com/channspirations/revisiting-karma-and-the-law-of-attraction-997965601b65 , "Karma is a vibrational level that draws the experiences needed for healing and growth to a soul. Nothing more."
Moreover, dying in this manner, rather than justice, may serve the purpose of further calling the world's attention to inequality, which one day, a long way out, will be rectified (https://medium.com/@jodieshelm/hard-times-are-coming-d66fc9a28f7 )and there is nothing wrong with using humor to bring that attention as well.
This incident also highlights the lack of reasonable care companies put into designing their products. Experts in and outside of the company raised alarms years before the incident (see third link below--I'm out of gift links for the month). This cavalier and profit-before-safety attitude is present in way too many industries.
You describe the feelings we all live in over this incident as ambiguous. No. They are not ambiguous. The conflicting feelings do not lack clarity. Our feelings on the matter are ambivalent--we are of two minds--we cannot decide between the different but not unclear feelings.
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This one's not a gift link--I've used up my monthly allotment https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/oceangate-titanic-missing-submersible.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
