Jim Y. Kim's Story 'Key To Disaster Survival'

There are horrific situations that happen all over the world that are killing innocent people unexpectedly. We the people should not be held accountable for these disasters that happened. The reason is that people have been in many incidents that have occurred where these actions shouldn’t be blamed on other human beings. There are people that think other humans should be held accountable for their actions. Those people are wrong because they think differently on situations.

In addition, one horrific situation is natural disasters. Natural disasters have been hurting and even killing people. In Shankar Vedantam story “Key to Disaster Survival,” she talks about disasters that happen all over and she lectures about how natural disaster have stirred up killing people. Also, these people can’t control these events that happen. Natural disasters occur from shifting of tectonic plates an weather, us humans can't manage that to not happen. Another story about a natural disaster is in Jim Y. Kim's Story the “Seven Steps to Surviving a Disaster” in this passage Jim states, “Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6,000 people in the Philippines last fall, reminded us how much suffering and damage nature can cause, and how important it is to invest in resilience and be ready to respond”(para 1.). That typhoon caused harmful effects to the people living there, also it left a lot of people miserable

Furthermore, another situation is survivor guilt.

In “Moral Logic of Survival Guilt” there are soldiers that would return home from war with guilt. The guilt they had was with their team they would go to war an when a soldier dies he would take it out on himself. Soldiers can only go beyond their moral actions. Not everyone can save lives and if you can't don’t feel guilty or held accountable for not being able to save that

person.

On the other hand, some people say that people should be held accountable for their actions. This point of view makes sense because there are some people that will put themselves in life or death situations. In Haruki Murakami story “The Seventh Man” it tells us “I asked him if I could go outside. He said I could walk around a little if I didn’t go far. But I want you to come right back here at the first sign of wind” (para 16.). Therefore, in “The Seventh Man” they are in the eye of a typhoon and his dad tells him he can go outside. He should not go outside cause they storm is very deadly and still moving that is dangerous to go out there. He put himself in a life or death situation.

To conclude, this tells us why people should not be held accountable for their actions. Natural disaster show and tell us how bad they can be an how much damage they can do to our lives. People are not responsible for those disasters. Survivor guilt is another it ruins people's lives but it's not their fault. They can’t save everyone, remember we can only go beyond our moral actions. This is why people should not be held accountable for their actions.