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Suleman Dawood was the youngest passenger on board. He was 19 and therefore an adult capable of making his own decisions.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/23/europe/titan-submersible-victims-intl/index.html

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That sounds an awful lot like “the boy refused to cross his powerful father, therefore he deserved to die”

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There’s nothing that indicates he was coerced.
My point is that people portray a father taking a 4 year old to his death. I’m just pointing out that he wasn’t a child but an adult who chose to go on the trip.

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Legally, yes, he was an adult. But compared to me he was a kid. I had not yet lived much at 19.

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Kids that age get sent to die in wars but they go on a badly informed submarine trip and now it’s a tragedy?

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Kids dying in wars is also a tragedy

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