HalfPointFive
HalfPointFive t1_j5w9n25 wrote
Reply to comment by Impeachcordial in TIL that the civilian ship pilot in Dunkirk is based off a real person - Charles Lightoller, the second officer of the Titanic who sailed his own ship to save 127 servicemen at Dunkirk by flotiste
He survived a lot of stuff, but only after making sure other people survived before him. He was a thoroughly honorable man.
HalfPointFive t1_iybde5e wrote
Reply to comment by NodeShot in Google has to pay $9.4 million because it paid people to say they liked the Pixel 4 by RunOrDieTrying
It was great. But it did not last. I had one that died under warranty and one that died out of warranty. Same issue. Screen connector.
HalfPointFive t1_iybd7c8 wrote
Reply to Google has to pay $9.4 million because it paid people to say they liked the Pixel 4 by RunOrDieTrying
Can I still get money for saying I like the pixel 4?
HalfPointFive t1_j63xzwe wrote
Reply to comment by Boris_Godunov in TIL that the civilian ship pilot in Dunkirk is based off a real person - Charles Lightoller, the second officer of the Titanic who sailed his own ship to save 127 servicemen at Dunkirk by flotiste
I don't think you should be downvoted because you make some good points. If you look at him through the lens of someone obviously very chivalrous (in the traditional sense) his actions are more understandable. It's easy to say "more lives could have been saved", however the argument that men would have swamped the ships is also a possibility. At all times, he appears to have been eminently concerned with the welfare of women and children, which I think is quite honorable. This comes at the expense of men, obviously, and also himself. His chivalry also makes the war crime more comprehensible. Having been on the Titanic, he would have experienced a passenger ship sinking with women and children. The idea of a warship (the uboat) sinking passenger and merchant ships probably pissed him off. It's not right of him to kill the uboat survivors, but I feel like if he were ordered to sink ships full of women and children he would refuse the order.