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The right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial board says of the Titan disaster that it is “at once a reminder of man’s vulnerability before the awesome vastness of the ocean—and a tribute to the indomitability of the human spirit,” placing the accident within the history of Noble Accidents across the history of exploration, with Rush a latter-day Amundsen. It’s not surprising the WSJ is disinclined to entertain the real lesson of the story: that confident idiots who think regulation is for cowards can end up getting themselves killed, and taking innocent people with them.

✏️ Continued proof of WSJ’s right-wing attitudes (see also their defense of Supreme Court justices and their dalliances with the rich elite) 🔗 View Highlight