Should People in Life-or-Death Situations Be Held Accountable for Their Actions? The day you are out there with just nature and you, will test you to your breaking point. A lot of people who go out into nature usually have a nice trouble-free experience, whereas unfortunately in some cases things don’t go as planned. There has been a debate if people who do end up in life-or-death type situations, should be held responsible for the things they do. This argument can sway both ways, but I believe they should be held accountable due to reasons like people make choices based on their own desires, knowledge, conditions, etc. it’s all on them. Some people however believe they shouldn’t because the cost will prevent those in trouble calling for …show more content…
This shows that a group of people are affected too by this situation. These rescue workers work their butt off trying to save as many people as they can. Some may go against this because it is their job and it is what they do. Well yeah, you got a point there it is what they do. But if we had more people who knew about the dangers and tried as best as they could to be safe, those rescue workers wouldn’t be dead.With every action we do, there almost always a reaction. This can be applied here, the adventurer’s actions will ultimately affect them and those who are close to them. But when they get in trouble, they also bring in the lives of others and their loved ones. It is just a constant cycle and they should be held accountable. Just like I said in the first paragraph, people themselves make choices so they should held responsible for every reaction that occurs to their action. In another story“Voyage of the James Caird” Shackleton and the five men he picked, their decisions and outcomes greatly affected the other men who were back with the sunken ship. It can be related to a ripple effect of sorts, your actions affect others. “Icebound, the ship drifted for months and finally sank Encamped on Elephant Island, Shackleton decided that he and five others would sail in one of the lifeboats- the James Caird- 800 miles to South Georgia Island, where there was a whaling station.” (page …show more content…
“Some incidents stem from a lack of judgment, some from a lack of training. Outdoor proficiency should come from a long, mentored apprenticeship that presents the opportunities to deal safely with increasingly precarious situations. “ (paragraph 6 , Survival Is Your Own Responsibility). This quote can clearly show that I am accurate in my claims. People aren’t prepared for what they are going to encounter and they gets them in serious, life-threatening situations. If you are trying something new and you don’t prepare yourself beforehand, chances are it will not go smoothly. It is sort of like taking a test before learning it, you will not do well. This can also be clearly shown in the story, “To Build A Fire” where the main character is really not prepared for the harsh cold he experienced. This man is walking in about “80 degrees odd below the freezing temperature”. He believes he will reach his camp within a few hours and all will be fine, but unfortunately things do not go as planned. He starts to get frostbite of course and has to fight his way to continue moving. His experiences in “To Build A Fire”, proves my claim. If people were prepared enough and careful, they wouldn’t be in life-or-death situations at all. That would prevent people from dying and getting hurt.
The man was so confident that he thought he had many protecting to keep him warm and last through the hold snowy trip. ”He held on through the level stretch of woods for several miles, crossed a wide flat of rigger-heads, and dropped down a bank to the frozen bed of a small stream. This was Henderson Creek, and he knew he was ten miles from the forks. He looked at his watch. It was ten o'clock. He was making four miles an hour, and he calculated that he would arrive at the forks at half-past twelve. He decided to celebrate that event by eating his lunch there” (London par. 8 ). This shows that he was confident that he would last through the whole trip with what he is just wearing. He was also confident because he was moving fast and he thought he was traveling fast but he was not traveling quick enough. “He was. pleased at the speed he had made. If he kept it up, he would certainly be with the boys by six. He unbuttoned his jacket and shirt and drew forth his lunch. The action consumed no more than a quarter of a minute, yet in that brief moment the numbness laid hold of the exposed fingers. He did not put the mitten on, but, instead struck the fingers a dozen sharp smashes against his leg.” (London par. 14). He was confident on how fast he moved and stopped and relax to enjoy his frozen
According to the poet Stephen Dobyns, “Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences.” The fact that someone is unaware about what could happen to them, does not excuse them from what they have done. People should think before they act, especially actions that could harm themselves and other people or things. In most cases, people are aware that what they are doing is wrong, and should know there will be consequences for their actions. In “Sound of Thunder,” by Ray Bradbury, Eckels does
Even though I believe that we are responsible for our actions and the resultant rewards or punishment, there is a need to “treat” the offender looking at other domains
Stepping outside a comfort zone is a risk, and when it is doing something one is not accustomed to doing, the benefits gained raises ones overall confidence. “Breaking Through Uncertainty –Welcome Adversity,” Jim takes the risk of cutting away his original parachute (par. 15). Certainly this is a huge risk. Going outside the ordinary to trust your training is a life saver; however, though the benefit of taking the risk is saving his life, it is something he
A responsibility is something for which one is held accountable. Often people say that one is responsible for one’s own words and actions; if something happens as a result of something one does one is responsible for it. But is it possible that something could be the result of various actions from different people who are therefore equally responsible, or is there always one person who is most responsible for the incident at hand? Such a situation where this question is relevant is present in the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles. In the novel, the main character, Gene, ponders his responsibility for the death of his best friend, Phineas or Finny. After reading Gene’s account of the events that led to Finny’s death the reader may observe that there are three people who are all partially at fault for Finny’s death. Gene, a classmate named Brinker, and Phineas all had something to do with the incident, but who was most responsible for it?
This is showing one of the appalling ways in which soldiers in the war can die. Also this man dying is not going to save t...
This topic is relevant to today’s society because it is important to save lives, and doing the opposite would just be inhumane. For example, there’s a single mom on a little adventure on Everest, alone, and she fell. Should rescue services help her to reunite with her little kids? Or should they “accidentally” put the poor kids in an orphanage? With the example given above, it is crystal clear that the option to save the mom is the best choice. And that’s why people do have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk. There are a lot of mountain climbing accidents happening every day, think about it, imagine how grieving life would be for the unfortunate climbers’ families if rescue services can’t help
The text states “ We often take responsibility in a way that goes beyond what we can reasonably be held responsible for.” (Sherman pg.154) This shows that the survivor takes the blame because they killed their loved one they just feel like that because the survivor was driving and didn’t wait or didn’t see the other driver that crashed into them. This proves that survivor's should not feel guilt for something they didn’t do because the other dumb person was drunk, or
In a newspaper article, by The Seattle Times, titled Ranger Killed During Rescue of Climbers on Mount Rainer, Nick Hall, a climbing ranger, “…fell 3,700 feet to his death…after helping rescue two climbers who had fallen into a crevasse, according to a park news release.” Even if rescue services do come to help, they could lose their lives due to other people’s poor choices. People need to learn the consequences of them climbing, inexperienced. People do get rescued, but besides the rescuer who lost their life, is affected, their friends and family are affected, too. It is not right for someone to die just because of another person.
For example, he was trying to kill the dog. “He would kill the dog and bury his hands in the warm body until the numbness went. Then he could build another fire.” “Then he realized that he could not kill the dog with his helpless hands.” This shows he is panicking because he wasn’t actually able to kill the dog because his hands were too frozen to work and he is not thinking clearly. He was also trying to run up the trail. “In a panic, he turned and ran up the old, dim trail.” “Several times he stumbled, and finally he tottered, crumpled up, and fell” This shows he is not calm because he is trying to run when he physically cannot; he stumbles up the trail and finally
When the narrator introduced the main character of the story, the man, he made it clear that the man was in a perilous situation involving the elements. The man was faced with weather that was 75 degrees below zero and he was not physically or mentally prepared for survival. London wrote that the cold "did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold."(p.1745) At first when the man started his journey to the camp, he felt certain that he could make it back to camp before dinner. As the trip progressed, the man made mistake after mistake that sealed his fate. The man's first mistake was to step into a pool of water and soak his legs to the knees. This blunder forced the man to build a fire to dry his wet socks and shoes so his feet would not freeze and become frostbitten. When the man began to build a fire he failed to notice that he was doing so under a large, snow laden spruce tree where he was getting his firewood. When the man had a small fire that was beginning to smolder the disturbance to the tree caused the snow to tumble to the ground and extinguish the fire. "It was his own fault or, rather, his mistake. He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree. He should have built it in the open."(1750).
In the editorial on war survivor’s syndrome, “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt,” by Nancy Sherman, Sherman states in paragraph 5, “We often take responsibility in a way that goes beyond what we can reasonably be held responsible for.” In war, a soldier may watch his comrade two feet away from him lose his life. Later, he will begin to feel as though it is his fault because he feels he should have stood there instead of his partner. That form of self-blame is unreasonable as life threatening situations are random and the soldier failed to realize that he did not kill his partner, the enemy did. Similarly, the seventh man holds himself accountable for K.’s death, yet it was K.’s misfortune in the typhoon that had led to his demise. Therefore, Sherman also wrote in paragraph 15, “...soldiers impose moral order on the chaos and awful randomness of war’s violence.” Like the soldiers, the seventh man fixed his own ethicalities onto the tragedy, causing the event to haunt him. His fictions prove that he should forgive himself, because he engulfed himself in guilt that should not
Obviously that was not the situation which was meant to occur. The cold served as a lesson to be taught to all explorers who would set foot into the never-ending winter from that day on. The continuous efforts that the man made to start a fire symbolize his will to survive. No will however is match for mother nature. The suffering man took on the role as a great teacher and hopefully preserver of life for generations to come.
It’s a big deal to learn new thing, but to survive in the wild. Life is fun and learning new things like live like a plant or animal,weather climate, and hunting people should always learn new things and learn to survive in the woods, In a new environment for many reasons. Learning to survive,in the woods takes time and lots of hard work. It needs a 100% of hard work,learning to survive can help a lot just think, survive in woods can help sharpen your mind,make your senses lot stronger.
Going into the wild with little preparation was a risk he knew he was