People Should Be Held Accountable For Life Essay

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People in almost every day are put in life or death situations either accidentally or it’s a totally unexpected thing that now they’re put in the life or death situation. The question is though if people should be held accountable for their life or death situations. No one should be held accountable for almost dying. It’s usually a case of the wrong place at the wrong time. Crazy accidents happen all the time that most people would never want to be apart of. Yes there are situations where people know it could end deathly and still do it but they shouldn’t be held accountable for something they love.

Being held accountable for almost dying and it’s not even your fault doesn’t seem very fair. For instance in he book “Unbroken” they should not be held accountable for their situation. They shouldn’t because they were fighting for their country and got lost at sea in a little raft for many days.
You could say that maybe in this book they chose to go into the military and they knew something like this could happen. All they were doing was their job …show more content…

For example in ‘’The life of Pi’ the ship crashed and he ended up alone on a raft with a tiger. It does not seem very logical for him to be held accountable for that. Sometimes things just happened and that person also did not want to be anywhere near a situation like that in the first place.
Some could say that in some parts in this book he should just be accountable for death when he viciously killed that fish. Anyone in that situation would do anything to survive, he is alone on a little boat with a tiger and needs food for himself.. If Pi did end up getting help from someone it seems very unfair for him to have to held accountable for being saved. He didn’t even wanna be in that situation in the first place. It seems very bizarre to make him pay something just because he got saved from a situation he didn’t even wanna be

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