Daryl R. Miller's Survival Is Your Own Responsibility

The human tendency is to feel guilt after a great tragedy, and so in turn humans will feel survivor’s guilt. Good people will naturally put more blame on themselves even if they had done nothing wrong or all that they could to help. In the editorial “The Moral Logic of Survivor’s Guilt” by Nancy Sherman, the author gives many examples of good people feeling survivor's

A lack of personal responsibility can cause many problems. Not only for the person who is making the choice not to take personal responsibility but for the people around them. One such example related to law enforcement could be if an officer with a department vehicle doesn't get the

If you went out one day and out of nowhere you find yourself in a life-or-death situation would it be your fault? People in a life-or-death situation should be held accountable for their actions because most of the time people know that if they do something that can put them in a life-or-death situation then something bad will happen but they still do it willingly. Another person might not agree with this claim and say that people should not be held accountable for their actions. The reason he or she might think this is because if when a person does face a life-or-death situation it might not be entirely their fault. The following reasons are examples of why my claim is stronger.

“…a catch-all expression… it’s the idea that for every accident someone is at fault. For every injury, someone to blame. And, perhaps most damaging, for every accident, there is someone to pay” (Lord Falconer, 2005).

Randy and Jim addressed having a survival mindset. That is having awareness of your environment and the situation at hand. It is taking the situation at a very serious level even if you have doubts of what you hear or saw.  The second one is preparation, which addresses being in position to reenact in your mind what you would do if a certain action was to take place. And specifically asking the what if questions, and evaluating how you would answer if you had to. The third is

Emergencies- make sure all personnel is familiar with what to do in case of an accident

The tactical background that the education would give first responders would help them stay safer in an active hot zone and help them come up with tactical priorities on a scene. Five points to evaluate for risk/ benefit analysis would be:

If one person endangers themselves by breaking the law, why should society pay for their mistakes? In paragraph 4 of, “Get into Trouble Outdoors – Who Pays for the Rescue?” by Tiffany Sharples, it states, “Even if you… canoe… Atlantic in the middle of a hurricane and the Coast Guard had to use… patrol boat… or a C-130 turboprop airplane… you wouldn’t have to pay a dime.” Is this fair? Society pays for one person’s mindless actions? If a person were to

If you were stuck on the top of a mountain with a broken leg wouldn't you want to get rescued? I think the climbers should get rescued because rescue attempts can draw attention to the hazards and safety of climbing, and the rescuers can become heroes. That’s why people who put themselves at risk do have the right to get rescued.

A good driver, after getting into an accident is usually not at fault. If the person at fault then decided to blame the accident on the good driver, who does not have enough money to get a lawyer, people would say that it should not work like that, and it is an experience they should never have. In the books Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird two characters, Ralph, and Tom Robinson both underwent events they should never experience. Tom is charged for a crime he never committed, while Ralph is abused by everyone around him. Undoubtedly they both experienced an evil that no one should ever go through, however, Ralph had it far worse, this is why.

People differ in their level of moral responsibility only because of facts beyond their control. The problem is that people are responsible to different degrees of blameworthiness solely because of subsequent events out of their control which arises in cases on negligence and intentional wrongdoing. For example, the level of injury to

By the mid-19th century, the alcohol with accidents alliance stated the individuals were accountable for their own safety and the victim shared the fault for his or her harm. This belief was developed by industrial accident records and they announced that for more than 90% of "accidents," it was mostly the injured person’s fault, and the 10% left was unavoidable. In the early 1900s, insurance company-sponsored research announced 2 approaches: number one was that safety promotion was productive in relation to its cost.; and number two was that injuries had psychological causes. Psychologists say that injuries were caused by mental errors, thus, the safety expert should be trained to search for psychological issues. This concept toke over the

Being adventurous is how you start to understand who you really are. Many people believe it is dangerous to travel, not worth it. But I believe, the world is dangerous. There are shootings everyday but getting out there and risking it is just living. Being adventurous shows you how others have to live, what so many people deal with every day. Or what so many people get to see every day, the beautiful yet cruel world we live in. There is a purpose for everything here, it is meant to be seen. We are not here to work everyday and then go home to rest and do it all over again, we were made to make a difference and to understand the world. Mountains were made to climb, oceans were made to be seen, and landmarks were too, “in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a

Moral: Any health and safety accident which leads to human harm will involve a degree of pain and suffering for the individual, possibly their family and friends.