• deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    If you’re going to feel bad for them then you should also feel bad for the climbers, and vice versa.

    I don’t think so. This is an asymmetric relationship. It’s been documented time and time again the tourists treat the sherpas like shit. There’s also plenty of evidence they treat the mountain like shit, a mountain which is sacred to the Sherpa people. No, I don’t think I’ll feel bad for those who litter in what should be a pristine location and treat the locals poorly.

    (Side note, I don’t even know what to call that extra vice versa. It’s like a vice versa double negative. You were already in vice versa mode by suggesting I should also feel bad for the tourists.)

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      5 months ago

      Perhaps the Sherpas shouldn’t be enabling them.

      And actually, my point is just that you should feel equally bad for them. They’re both people who chose to be there and they’re both people that died. If you don’t want to feel bad for them then that’s fine too.

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      5 months ago

      the tourists treat the sherpas like shit.

      I submit it’s the shitty tourists being shitty, and either selection bias or toxic generalizations is filling in the rest for you .

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        5 months ago

        Nope. There’s a good documentary called Sherpa you should check out. Also - why do so many people know who Sir Edmund Hillary is, but not Tenzing Norgay? They both were the first up there. Sherpas have been treated poorly as long as people have been summiting the mountain.