Life Of Pi Sacrifice
Should You Pay for Your Rescue? Many people do regrettable things in which would require the need of a rescue. But then there’s those who just get caught in an accident. So yes, people should be held accountable for their actions and no depending on the situation. This is shown through “Life of Pi”, “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt”, “The Value of a Sherpa Life”, and finally, “The Seventh Man”. The short story, by Yann Martel, “Life of Pi” explains the concept of why we should be held responsible: “‘Stupidity has a price. You should show more care and wisdom next time’” (Martel 204). By this, he explains that if you don’t have a plan of what to do ahead of time, or don’t know what you’re doing, you will most likely get caught in places that lead to consequences.
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Many incidents that occur (that require a lot of money), people often believe in an instant that they should be responsible for paying for their own rescue. But it probably wouldn’t have been their fault they almost died. An example to support why people should not be held accountable for certain actions is in the short story, “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami. “I remembered having looked up at the sky like this in search of the “eye” of the typhoon. And then, inside me, the axis of the time gave one great heave, forty long years collapsed…All sounds faded, and the light around me shuddered, I lost my balance and fell into the waves” (Murakami 144). This quote supports the idea that you shouldn’t pay for damage or rescue because it was a natural disaster. It explains that he was caught in the middle of a tsunami in which he or anyone had no control over. Along with the quote, “We often take responsibility in a way that goes beyond what we can reasonably be held responsible for” (Sherman 153) in the short story “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt”. We don’t always have to take responsibility for something
Many incidents that occur (that require a lot of money), people often believe in an instant that they should be responsible for paying for their own rescue. But it probably wouldn’t have been their fault they almost died. An example to support why people should not be held accountable for certain actions is in the short story, “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami. “I remembered having looked up at the sky like this in search of the “eye” of the typhoon. And then, inside me, the axis of the time gave one great heave, forty long years collapsed…All sounds faded, and the light around me shuddered, I lost my balance and fell into the waves” (Murakami 144). This quote supports the idea that you shouldn’t pay for damage or rescue because it was a natural disaster. It explains that he was caught in the middle of a tsunami in which he or anyone had no control over. Along with the quote, “We often take responsibility in a way that goes beyond what we can reasonably be held responsible for” (Sherman 153) in the short story “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt”. We don’t always have to take responsibility for something