My takes on the takes on the Titan submersible implosion…

This lack of empathy is increasingly common – and, I would argue, encouraged – by many segments of our society, particularly those that exist in what you might call the “Cultural Marxist” space. Well, anytime you find yourself in any kind of Cultural Marxist space, you’re probably at least adjacent to psychopathy.

Now there are variations on this that don’t rise to the “good, they’re dead” level. For example, “they knew it was risky and they took the risk anyway.” This is clearly true, and doesn’t necessarily indicate a lack of empathy. It might even indicate an understanding of people’s willingness to take risks to advance personal or societal horizons, which is actually a kind of empathy. The deceased aquanauts did in fact know that what they were doing was risky (more on that below) and chose to go anyway. By saying “they knew the risks,” you may also be saying that just because the press wants to make them into victims doesn’t mean that they are.

[It’s a lengthy discourse on lots of different hot takes after the Titan submersible implosion, so read it all. I think the above point is noteworthy though for its broad application in any notable-tragedy reporting. When violence comes to a Christian group, we get denigrated snickering about “thoughts and prayers,” for instance. Readers will no doubt think of other such circumstances. Those kinds of reactions happen on the Right too, but they seem to be the norm among the cultural Marxists. — Ed]