Personal Narrative: When You Were In A Life Or Death Situations

The pipel and the two other men were hung. The two adults died instantly but the pipel was too light and stayed alive for a half an hour.

When responding to situations in life people must consider if doing so will benefit themselves or the people around them. In circumstances that demand quick thinking people often can not form a concrete decision based on how little information and time they have. In life people frequently must try to do so through their daily battles with the people around them as well as themselves.

The selfishness of a man can be best seen in the way he or she tries to obtain food for a living. Taking into account the situation in which the world limits the resources available for people’s consumption, people tend to get resources solely for themselves and not for the people around them. As said in the earlier paragraph, people will most likely save their own lives than to think for the greater good. That is going to happen if we take into

life. He died on the operating table. On one side there are several opinions one being that

In general, people are considered selfish nowadays because people only care about themselves. Everyone has a dream where they want to pursue it in the fastest way. They would do anything in order to get to that dream, even if it involves losing others. In the play, Macbeth, he is characterized as a loyal and good man who later on acts like the witches. The witches are awful girls who only care about themselves.

In the opinion of Katharine Brush, Selfishness can hurt other people, as her short story “Birthday Party” is about a man hurt his wife because of his selfishness. In the story, the man’s wife prepares a birthday party for him at a dinner. The man shows his selfishness after the orchestra played “Happy Birthday to You” and the birthday cake arrived, “the man was hotly embarrassed, and indignant at his wife for embarrassing him.” Hotly embarrassed means that is mad at his wife while being embarrassed, the “hotly” implying wrath and rage. The definition of indignant is showing anger because of unfair treatment, so the husband thinks it’s unfair to himself for not getting what he wanted, and not considering of what his wife as done to make this

Everyone, at some point, has done something they felt silly about afterwards. In horror movies, people often poke fun at the characters for not making the right decision. The characters become a laughing stock for deciding not to call the police or speaking too loudly. But choosing the appropriate decision can cause difficulty in the moment, especially in times of stress. In reality, most people have made a decision that caused them to feel foolish after the fact.

Ayn Rand mentions that selfishness “is a task of ethics to answer such questions.” The meaning behind this can be depending on the situation a person can be considered selfish on bad terms or on good terms; as we need to observe the actions of the individual. In a situation where a disaster may strike, we tend to secure the things that matters the most to us. Our human instincts would be to survive and collect as many resources as we can. In the process of gathering supplies, we could encounter moments where trampling over people would occur. For those who are gathering more than enough for one person would be seen as greedy. Depending on the situation, the individual can be selfish to help others or the individual can be selfish to secure their own self-fulfillment. The person being selfish in order to protect their loved ones can be seen as morally helpful, as he or she is not being selfish for their own good but for someone else. On contrary, the person being selfish to help themselves would be considered to be a synonym of evil. Furthermore, when we secure things we tend to prioritize what we think is important first and don’t consider anyone else but ourselves. I can relate to this as I contemplated on an event whether my actions were unacceptable. When I was in middle school I used to babysit two little girls near my neighborhood. At that time, I was playing a sport and had homework I had to catch up on. Although their mother asked if I could babysit them as there was an emergency with her boyfriend; I refused to do so because I thought I was too behind in school with a test coming up. After I’ve finished my homework with time to spare, I noticed that I may have been selfish

return to my motel room and reflect on how much of a coward I was. Embarrassed, I

Selfish: lacking consideration for others, concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure. Ever since a friend of mine contacted me about a problem she was facing I’ve felt so amazed of how words can affect one another. She was going through some things and didn't know how to express them to me because of personal reasons, but it didn't stop her from getting help from me. It wasn't about if I knew what the problem was, it was about problem solving and helping someone who in need and she needed help on how to approach certain things and the manner you should approach it in. I was more then welcome to help her overcome these flaws and I spoke with her until I broke down every question or concern she had to reach her satisfactory

It is also quite scary to think that this actually happened in the real world before. I really wonder what I would do in that situation. Would I have the same ending like the characters in the movie? What would you

According to Merriam Webster, being selfish is “to have or show concern for only yourself and not for the needs or feelings of other people.” In Khaled Hosseini’s book, The Kite Runner, the character Amir goes through numerous hardships throughout the story. To overcome those challenges, he performs acts that directly caused harm to the other characters in the book. Most of the time, the struggles that Amir passes are due to the sacrifices others have done for him. In scenarios such as running away from danger and pinning the blame on his best friend, Amir had only thought for himself. There are times when he knows that what he is doing is wrong, but unfortunately, he still goes through with it because the benefits for him outweigh the negatives. While Amir may have had justification for his actions, it does not change the fact that he is a selfish person who had betrayed others for his own benefit.

Since egoism is part of morality it will involve the use of reason per Wollstonecraft philosophy. Now to test it lets use the scenario I described earlier with the mindset to create my answer which hopefully is made using reason. Now with the scenario of the two soldiers I have two possible choices to make which are to either save the soldier who has a family or save the soldier that is my best friend but has no other friends or family. As an egoist, I must make the choice that helps me out the most. If I save the soldier that has the family him and his family will be grateful towards but they don’t know me well enough to the point that they will help me a lot later. Also, the soldier is severely wounded meaning that if I did save him he would

It’s not selfish to crave victory, especially if she worked her way up to her rank I think it’s brave of her

If a loved one was in danger, wouldn’t you take risk to save them. Jonas has an escape plan, and it had to change to save Gabe because he was going to be released. As Jonas was getting ready for the escape plan, Jonas’s parents were talking about Gabe. “‘When?’ he asked. ‘ When will he be released?’ ‘ First thing tomorrow…’” Jonas had to change his plan, and he was willing to risk that to save Gabe. He made his journey, and didn’t give up, because he was willing to risk everything to save Gabe. Many people today may have to face the same problem, taking big risk to save the ones they