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* As the ''Titanic'' sank, a first-class passenger on one of the lifeboats was heard to remark that her favorite night-gown was still aboard the ship. [[Never Live It Down|Society ostracized her and her husband for the rest of her life.]] Of course, she could have been babbling in shock.
** This is also a [[Disproportionate Retribution]], definitely. Sure, the woman was being selfish, but nobody deserves ''that''. And her husband was ostracized even though he didn't say anything selfish.
** But that's only half the story. The real reason why the couple -- [[w:Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon|Lady Lucile]] and [[w:Cosmo Duff-Gordon|Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon]] -- was punished so severely was because their boat carried only twelve people when it could've taken at least forty. After the ship went down the couple convinced the crew not to return to the wreckage to rescue any survivors. After the woman commented on her dress, the crew began to complain about their losses, so the man gave them some money to start a new life. [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|The press saw this as bribery and the couple became ostracized.]]
* In one of the more tragic examples, it's one of the common motivations behind familicide. The warning signs are almost identical to those for suicide, but some people can't conceive of their family surviving without them, so they take the entire family with them.
** Case in point, [[Pater Familicide|John List]], who killed his entire family because he couldn't own up to his financial woes and evaded capture for decades, almost becoming a [[Karma Houdini]].
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