Titanic Folly: The real cost of the Titan submersible disaster

The social media feeding frenzy cost us a little bit more of our souls.

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Let’s start with two things up front:

1. The crew of the Titan submersible shouldn’t have been anywhere near the wreck of the Titanic.

2. That doesn’t mean that the very wealthy people aboard, who’d paid $250,000 each to tour what is essentially a massive burial site, deserved to die.

But if you paid any attention to social media last week,…