Thank you for the shoutout, Rebecca! I agree so, so much with your thoughts on the Titan and risk when traveling, particularly this:
"I do believe we have some responsibility as travelers to take not only our own safety into consideration, but think about how our actions could impact others. This is not to say that I think we should always follow U.S. government travel warnings for countries, which are often overly cautious and would have you forgoing most of the world."
Most travel is going to involve some degree of risk, and a lot of people are overly cautious...or rather, they believe risk in certain places is higher than it is in reality. But we should always weigh how our actions could affect others, and what resources we might pull away from more important initiatives should someone have to bail us out. I feel horrible for the people who died on the Titan, and I can't help thinking how a) they would still be alive and b) several governments would have avoided a massive headache if they had just, say, observed the wreck using a video feed from an ROV, which would probably only be marginally less cool. Some things just aren't worth it.
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Thank you for the shoutout, Rebecca! I agree so, so much with your thoughts on the Titan and risk when traveling, particularly this:
"I do believe we have some responsibility as travelers to take not only our own safety into consideration, but think about how our actions could impact others. This is not to say that I think we should always follow U.S. government travel warnings for countries, which are often overly cautious and would have you forgoing most of the world."
Most travel is going to involve some degree of risk, and a lot of people are overly cautious...or rather, they believe risk in certain places is higher than it is in reality. But we should always weigh how our actions could affect others, and what resources we might pull away from more important initiatives should someone have to bail us out. I feel horrible for the people who died on the Titan, and I can't help thinking how a) they would still be alive and b) several governments would have avoided a massive headache if they had just, say, observed the wreck using a video feed from an ROV, which would probably only be marginally less cool. Some things just aren't worth it.