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I watched as my life, my soul, things that made me me taken and so i ask was it worth it. Is it worth it to sit alone. Is it worth it to fight back. Is it worth it to just sit and watch. Is it worth it to just let things happen. Is it worth it to do nothing for anyone. Is it worth it to take lives for your own. Is it worth people dying over your mistake. Is it worth it to save someone but kill another. Is it worth it to do nothing while others die for you. Is it worth it to fight for what's right and what is wrong. Is it worth it to kill someone over a rumour someone said. Is it worth it to destroy a family just to keep yours together. Is it worth it to hurt people you care about to save the ones you don't. Is it worth it to destroy something
over a fight you had with someone over nothing. We ask us these questions and more if things are worth it and if they're not but we ask them with a I in it and not a we because we all do things that we regret but we don’t do anything to make it right.
Does someone need to die in order to gain and obtain equality amongst the others? In the novel In Time of the Butterflies, written by Julia Alvarez, the main character and the subordinate character affect the plot of the novel because they develop a strong relationship. Their relationship becomes so strong that they devise a rebellion. Their rebellion had many outcomes whether being possible or negative. They manage to get equality and respect amongst the people of their land, but they sacrifice their lives and others to obtain it.
We learn from conflict that sacrifices must be made to help others. In the novel The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, Hannah was an altruistic person that always put others before herself. Because of her heroic nature, she often risked her life for other people. For example, when Commander Breuer visited the concentration camp to choose who would be killed, Hannah risked execution by attempting to save Reuven. When he was caught, Hannah desperately tried to convince the commander to let the child go. The commandant took Reuven away in spite of her pleas. She was unsuccessful; however, this selfless act could have cost Hannah her life. These dire situations force people to jeopardize their own safety for someone else. Hannah’s protective instincts
Is one baby worth more? Or should he be sacrificed to save millions of
For example: Ellie viewed a fight over food on train where a son beats his father to death. These sons sacrifice their fathers; they only matter at that point was saving their own lives, people only cared for themselves. His father was getting old and weak, and Elie realizes his father does not have the strength to survive on his own, and it is too late to save him. "It 's too late to save your old father, I said to myself..."(105). Ellie would never seriously consider killing his father; he depends on his father for support and so many other things. Ellie said the presence of his father was one and only thing that stooped me from allowing myself to die. Ellie and his father 's relationship prove that Ellie doesn 't only care about himself but the people around him to. Ellie was brave by not leaving his father behind and listening to his conscience.
In Shimon Wincelberg’s Resort 76, there were several instances in which one man was willing to sacrifice himself to save the life of another, including Schnur’s voluntary surrender to the SS to ensure that no one else would die on account of his own actions and the willingness of Blaustain to care for Madame Hershkovitch’s illegal cat even though he knew it would endanger his own life, so that they could eventually trade it in to feed her five children and take care of his ill wife, Ester. If these two men would have sided with temptation and attempted to save their own lives, then they would not have been able to have the satisfaction of knowing that they
In the book Ender’s Game this question is the main theme of the book. This situation where one living human just as equal as everybody is sacrificed for the possible survival of human race is repeated many times throughout the book. But is it moral? They’re sacrificing one person in order the have more possibilities of the survival of one whole race. There are other cases that in my opinion are immoral. One example of this is the book or play “To Kill a Mockingbird” where an african american individual is
Would you rather be saved and live to see another day with someone rational, or die because someone likeable is power-hungry and focused on themselves?
There is no moral reason to prefer people who are closer to us. Singer’s argument says, “if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance then we ought, morally to do it (Singer, pg. 231). Singer then presents a case in where a child is drowning in a pod and we should sacrifice a small portion of our luxury life. However, I disagree with Singer’s argument, because there is a moral obligation as to why we should prefer people who are closer to us. For example, there are thousands of children near us dying of starvation and there can be thousands more starving in another country. However, the children who are nearest to us have priority due to being a fellow citizen or a member of the community in where one can aid much faster. There should be no guilt in accepting the fact that it is of more urgent importance to help those in close proximity than those whom we may never be aware of. Secondly, in helping the children who are nearer to us we may be assured that out efforts will be efficiently used, rather than the children who are far away in which we might not be sure that we are aiding correctly or that our efforts will pay off. Our way of helping, whether it is financially or ideologically, may not be enough to help, and this may actually harm, the situation. For this reason our moral obligation to the children
Sacrifice is something we all may face at least once in our lifetime. A man named Oleg demonstrated a heroic act of self sacrifice when he threw himself on top of a live grenade to absorb the blast with his own body. Due to his sacrifice he saved his team members, nearby citizens, and the female hostage. He made the split second decision to save the people around him despite the risk of losing his own life. However, not everyone can make such a quick decision regarding a sacrifice. Before making a sacrifice, people can consider the kind of sacrifice it is, what they stand to gain, and when the sacrifice is appropriate.
I've always trying to take decisions that will benefit other people then the others that just benefit me.
Firstly, according to Singer’s second premise it is necessary to sacrifices if something is not really important to us in order to help others or preventing bad things from happening. He uses the example of a drowning child to further prove his point. People should put our shoes into other’s shoes such as imagining we are the child’s parents, will we still hesitate to save him? No, we will for sure do everything to rescue him without thinking of the consequences. Thus, he believes that there is a moral obligation to help the little boy because of the Golden Rule that he brings out. I would agree that people should do their possible to help others in need or in danger if there is no harm to us as the importance of saving a child outweighs the cost of getting our shoes wet and being late for work. We should “do unto others as we would have them do unto you”. However, I found that his...
People risk their life for something they are passionate about: it can be their job, another person, even an animal. The Challenger space shuttle crew was passionate about what they did and they knew the risks about being in the shuttle and the worst happened to them. Steve Irwin was passionate about animals (mostly predators) and showing them to people. The most unfortunate thing happened to him also as he was stung in the heart by a stingray causing him to pass away. Other people like Will and Halt in the book The Ranger’s Apprentice, risk their lives on multiple occasions. They do so for their country and for doing what they are passionate about, being Rangers and defending their country for the good of the people who live in it. So, is something you are passionate about worth risking your life for?
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life. I knew I had to make the right decision as Sophocles says, “Decide not rashly. The