Cyntoia Brown's Argument Against The Law

At only sixteen years old, Cyntoia Brown was purchased by Johnny Allen, a forty-three-year-old child predator. After days of abuse and being held against her will, Cyntoia found the strength to fight back and kill her sex trafficker. Though she committed an unlawful act, Cyntoia was simply attempting to survive given the circumstances she was put through. Actions made by an individual in life-or-death situations should not be held against him or her, as the individual pursued these actions with the will to survive. Besides the fact that these acts are considered “against the law”, a person follows through these endeavors to abide their lives. The difficulties people face cause them to make certain decisions for the sake of survival.
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People have a right to make smart choices in a given circumstance that will ensure safety, even if it means committing a detestable act. The captain of The Overcrowded Lifeboat should not be held accountable for his actions because he was responsible to get his crew members to safety. The captain had to make a choice that would give him and his crew members the best chance of survival. A way to achieve safety for as many people as possible was to force individuals off of the lifeboat. “On the other hand, if the captain attempted to save some, he could do so only by killing others and their deaths would be his responsibility; this would be worse than doing nothing and letting all die” (The Overcrowded Lifeboat). Given the circumstances, the captain decided to save a majority of the survivors from the Arctic waters. The sole purpose of his actions was to save as many of his crew members, so he decided on the most intuitive idea and threw the weakest out of the lifeboat. To ensure that as many on the boat had the chance of maximum survival, sacrificing a few for the lives of many was the most
Killing to remain alive is an act most people have difficulty perpetrating. In v, Rainsford commits numerous unlawful deeds to survive. Along with setting many traps intended to cause death, Rainsford also unintentionally kills Ivan by tying his knife to a sapling. Rainsford did not mean to commit such a brutal crime but succumbed to it for the highest chance of survival. "I can't believe you're serious, General Zaroff. This is a grisly joke.""Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting.""Hunting? General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder"" (Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game). Before Rainsford was swept away on the island, he would never have taken another person's life, as looking at this action as murder, not just a game. Getting stranded on Ship-Trap Island forced Rainsford to change the way that he looked at hunting. He has to stop hunting animals and begin to kill humans, even though he did not believe in pursuing this action. In comparison to Rainsford, Pi, the protagonist from Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, lives through a similar life-or-death situation as the captain. He struggles to find a way to avoid getting eaten by Richard Parker, the tiger who is stranded on the boat with him. He realizes that the lives of innocent fish must be sacrificed to save himself. "Tears flowing down my cheeks, I egged myself on until I heard a cracking sound and I no longer felt any life-fighting