Why Do People Have Access To Lifeboat

In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, the idea of people finding happiness, which is the ultimate end and purpose of human existence, depends on having a moral character. The possibility of people being able to do the right thing would be more clear in situations where people’s lives may be on the line. Aristotle repeatedly reminds us that in ethics, there are no universal/absolute rules or laws in place that dictate how people should specifically act under specific conditions. Everything has the potential to change, and every situation is always different.
In this case where people are on a sinking boat, we will justify from Aristotle’s how people would be chosen to serve as sacrifices to a greater means of doing good to save worthy lives.
They should both be given access to the lifeboat due to their age, including the fact that they are alone and do not know how to take decisions on their own. Aristotle would argue that they are not ready to die because they have not experienced life to its full extent. They are nowhere near to the point of reaching Eudaimonia. Leaving them on the boat to die would contradict his idea that people live to reach the highest level of happiness, which is done by experience, something the twins do not have. Aristotle would highlight the importance of the youth, which would be enough to convince that the twins should be saved. The next two passengers that should be saved should be the two young adults. Aristotle would see the two young adults that just got marries as true friends. Having a true friend is something everyone should have in life, and are hard to come around. Finding someone that you care about as much as you care about yourself. A true friend cancels your defects and you cancel theirs. If there would be a chance to save the married couple, Aristotle would try to save both because he highlights that having a true friend is the best part of life, and taking that away would contradict his