response of ''The Cost of Saving a Jumper"
Chuyi Wu
The Cost of Saving a Jumper In "The Cost of Saving a Jumper" by Joan Ryan, Ryan forthrightly exposes a current social awareness that people are simply not willing to take responsibilities while they subjectively focus on their self-interests. When looking at the article logically, Ryan's argument is convincible due to her detailed evidence. Thus I agree with Ryan that many people are gradually inclined to overweigh their personal cost-- and their foolishness to overlook other's rights and needs--that have become a pervasive and pusillanimous behavior nowadays. There is always an inevitable contradiction between the value of lives and the cost of saving it, and indeed many Americans prefer to being more concerned about the latter, mostly because they get used to compare other people as threats, not as partners. In the article, Ryan utilizes the controversial incident about the suicide attempt in Bay Bridge that resulted in a 13 1/2 hour traffic jam. Confronting the severe traffic congestion and financial losses, some people firmly hold their opinion that saving a person's life is the most moral obligation for everyone. "You do whatever it takes for however long it takes to prevent the suicide"(par 3). Nevertheless, there are more people still ceaselessly complained that relevant authority must remove the jumper as soon as possible principally for the sake of their convenience. "The resistant jumper might be hurt or even fail to his death in the process, but since he put himself in such a dangerous position, he is ultimately responsible for the result"(par 4). Furthermore, in order to insist the seriousness of the cost, they further to recognize themselves as "hostages" and the jumper who actually felt desperate to death as a "narcissist who wants to be the center of attention"(par 4). Yet it appeared that rather than trying to alleviate the intense controversy, the people seemed committing to fanning it. Unarguably, getting stuck in freeway, many
The Cost of Saving a Jumper In "The Cost of Saving a Jumper" by Joan Ryan, Ryan forthrightly exposes a current social awareness that people are simply not willing to take responsibilities while they subjectively focus on their self-interests. When looking at the article logically, Ryan's argument is convincible due to her detailed evidence. Thus I agree with Ryan that many people are gradually inclined to overweigh their personal cost-- and their foolishness to overlook other's rights and needs--that have become a pervasive and pusillanimous behavior nowadays. There is always an inevitable contradiction between the value of lives and the cost of saving it, and indeed many Americans prefer to being more concerned about the latter, mostly because they get used to compare other people as threats, not as partners. In the article, Ryan utilizes the controversial incident about the suicide attempt in Bay Bridge that resulted in a 13 1/2 hour traffic jam. Confronting the severe traffic congestion and financial losses, some people firmly hold their opinion that saving a person's life is the most moral obligation for everyone. "You do whatever it takes for however long it takes to prevent the suicide"(par 3). Nevertheless, there are more people still ceaselessly complained that relevant authority must remove the jumper as soon as possible principally for the sake of their convenience. "The resistant jumper might be hurt or even fail to his death in the process, but since he put himself in such a dangerous position, he is ultimately responsible for the result"(par 4). Furthermore, in order to insist the seriousness of the cost, they further to recognize themselves as "hostages" and the jumper who actually felt desperate to death as a "narcissist who wants to be the center of attention"(par 4). Yet it appeared that rather than trying to alleviate the intense controversy, the people seemed committing to fanning it. Unarguably, getting stuck in freeway, many