Saturday, March 31, 2012
Helping Someone
In class, we talked about the possibility of having the choose between helping two people. They had the same infections and same everything only difference was that they were from different countries. I first thought to help the person who wasn't American but then that would of seemed unpatriotic. Then, I decided that I would help the American but then that seemed like favoritism. So decided to not help either one of them because I couldn't win no matter who I choose. I feel as though whenever your in that situation I think the best way out is to leave them alone because it will go bad either way but then you'll be considered unpatriotic for not helping the American. This is a very difficult choice to make. What would your choices be?
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You are saying that given the choice between saving person A's life or person B's life, you would choose to let both die? The possibility of being considered unpatriotic should not sufficiently deter you from saving someone's life. I think the label of playing favorites or being unpatriotic should be overlooked when a person's life hangs in the balance. Additionally, if you have the ability to save a person at little cost to yourself and chose not to do it, it is essentially akin to murder; meaning that if you chose to save neither, you have effectively murdered one of them.
ReplyDeleteI, personally, would save one person trying to base it off of chance or something else. I could blindly run towards one, or make an instinctual choice, or I could even choose on the basis of country of origin (I would likely choose the non-American and receive that unpatriotic title), anything is better than letting one of them die when I could have saved them.