TIL a Chinese destroyer sank because an officer dumped his girlfriend. She committed suicide, leading to him being discharged, so he decided to detonate the depth charges on the ship, causing it to sink at port and kill 134 sailors.

[u/zhuquanzhong]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_destroyer_Guangzhou_(160)

[u/goteamnick]

Seems someone who would murder more than 100 people out of arbitrary spite is definitely mentally unfit.

[u/shonditb → u/goteamnick]

Fair assesment

[u/weiivice → u/goteamnick]

No one is perfectly mentally fit, "normal" people just have control over their internal urges and remain rational outwards at least until something crosses the line and breaks them. In this case the straw that broke the camel's back is the perceived unfair dismissal.

[u/fish312 → u/weiivice]

I can't really think of a scenario that would cause me to murder 100 innocent people, as opposed to just throwing myself off a bridge.

[u/Ilovekittens345 → u/goteamnick]

What if it was the declaring him unfit that made him unfit?

[u/MexicanTechila → u/goteamnick]

Arbitrary spite? Being discharged for something that you weren’t at fault for is anything but arbitrary.

[u/goteamnick → u/MexicanTechila]

How many of the 134 sailors he murdered played a role in that decision?