Many people believe one needs to be selfish in order survive the obstacles life gives.
However, a closer look into people’s decisions shows that not all acts of survival are selfish. Survival does not require selfishness because it is not selfish to protect oneself and at times it can mean making a life or death decision.
Ensuring one’s survival is never a selfish act. Ronald DiFrancesco was one of the many inside the world trade center when it collapsed. All around him he saw people giving up, no longer trying to escape the building. They were losing all hope and he was beginning to do the same. “The people all of whom would die were just giving up and falling asleep. DiFrancesco, too was collapsing, but then he said to himself, I’ve got …show more content…
Some suppose that if a person is in a scenario where people around them are dying, they should try and save everyone. In many cases people become paralyzed with fear and cannot move. In scenarios like these a person would be putting themselves in the way of danger by attempting to save the people who are not even moving. Also, usually in these situations it is impossible to save everyone anyways. Survival depends on a person’s survival instinct. “A guy who provides survival training for pilots told me once that the number one determining factor for survival is simply whether people hold it together in a crisis or fall apart”(Wallace 318). In the novel, Alas, Babylon, there is a war taking place. Both sides are firing at one another and no one is winning. Admiral Sam Hazzard says, “Who’s winning? Nobody's winning. Cities are dying and ships are sinking and aircraft is going in, but nobody's winning" (Frank 141). Some may argue that this is selfish because innocent people are being killed and no one is winning anyways. However, it is not selfish because the war is taking place to make the surroundings and community livable for the people. The two sides went to war to solve a conflict and if they hadn’t the conflict would never resolve or go
However, a closer look into people’s decisions shows that not all acts of survival are selfish. Survival does not require selfishness because it is not selfish to protect oneself and at times it can mean making a life or death decision.
Ensuring one’s survival is never a selfish act. Ronald DiFrancesco was one of the many inside the world trade center when it collapsed. All around him he saw people giving up, no longer trying to escape the building. They were losing all hope and he was beginning to do the same. “The people all of whom would die were just giving up and falling asleep. DiFrancesco, too was collapsing, but then he said to himself, I’ve got …show more content…
Some suppose that if a person is in a scenario where people around them are dying, they should try and save everyone. In many cases people become paralyzed with fear and cannot move. In scenarios like these a person would be putting themselves in the way of danger by attempting to save the people who are not even moving. Also, usually in these situations it is impossible to save everyone anyways. Survival depends on a person’s survival instinct. “A guy who provides survival training for pilots told me once that the number one determining factor for survival is simply whether people hold it together in a crisis or fall apart”(Wallace 318). In the novel, Alas, Babylon, there is a war taking place. Both sides are firing at one another and no one is winning. Admiral Sam Hazzard says, “Who’s winning? Nobody's winning. Cities are dying and ships are sinking and aircraft is going in, but nobody's winning" (Frank 141). Some may argue that this is selfish because innocent people are being killed and no one is winning anyways. However, it is not selfish because the war is taking place to make the surroundings and community livable for the people. The two sides went to war to solve a conflict and if they hadn’t the conflict would never resolve or go