2/14/12

What would you do to stay alive? Picture your on a boat with one other person and there is only enough food for one person to survive, would you give up the food to that person or would you except that food and watch them die? By no means is this an easy question but this was the example used in class to explain the difference between being selfish or self interested. By taking the food does that make you selfish or accepting? And what are your intentions when giving the food away, is it just so you don't have to watch the other person die? But what about the idea of being a "hero"? When you think of a hero, most think of someone that goes out of their way in an extreme mannor to help someone else. The reason that heros are so looked up too is because there aren't many real life people that would be willing to risk everything that they have for someone else. But back to what you would do to stay alive, would you be selfish enough to take the food, or selfish enough to die so you don't have to live with the fact that you are alive because someone else had to die?