desperate times come for desperate measures
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IF you were on a lifeboat all alone with 4 other people and no water or food, what would you do? Wait for someone to rescue you? Wait for death? What would the other people think of doing? when people get asked these questions, a lot of times whey don't know what to say. They always say " I would wait for someone to rescue me" or "We are a team and we can survive together until help arrives". But what people can't understand is when your in a position like that you wont think like that. Have you ever seen someone do some thing and say "i could do that" but when given the chance, you totally forget what to do or say? well same thing will happen when in a lifeboat miles away from land. you wont be think about all the happy and easy ways to get out of a position like that. You probably mentally brake down, cry maybe. Because no one wants to die and when someone is position of dying, its hard to do anything.
1 WEEK in your travel and already your tired, hungry, and missing home. one of the 5 people seems to have gone crazy and starts to drink sea water non stop. one guy try's to pull the man away from the water but he cannot. another guy has an idea that might help you live for another week or so. Let the man drink the water, wait for him to die then eat his body. But it might be another day or 2 before he dies. Every one is hungry, Are you willing to kill him before He dies from the salt poisoning? How would you feel about killing a man to keep living? To take another humans live can be really bad for your mental health.
2 WEEKS in and a police boat had seen a little lifeboat floating. they drive over to it and see 4 people and one half eaten corps in the boat. they take you in and drive to shore. After a couple days in the hospital and you and the other 3 people are going to court for the murder of one of the men in the lifeboat. You plead your case about how that to survive you and the other people had to kill the man to keep living. And that he was already dying. after the court case, you were sentenced to 15 years in prison. What would you do if had to kill someone to survive?
I like that you formed that post as a you scenario and asked lots of rhetorical questions. Personally I don't think that the people should have been convicted of murder. The man was already going crazy and was likely going to die soon anyways and the people on the boat had no way of knowing they were going to get rescued. They were initiating their survival skills and doing what they could to save their own lives. Although it was technically murder I don't think they should have gotten that long a sentence. They should have gotten no sentence or a short sentence given the circumstance. They didn't going in thinking I'm gonna kill this man. It was a desperate situation and they were likely a bit disillusion as well. Although I don't believe these men should have spent so much time in prison for their crime and I don't think I would have been able to do what they did. Although I don't really know because I have never been in any situation like that.
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