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Friday, March 13, 2009
Just before I start... This blog, isn't well written, and it isn't all that interesting. But I want you to read it, and think about it. Really read it, really think. This is one of the first times I'm actually trying to get a serious point across - which I, quite apparently, suck at doing. :)
So, my PDHPE class did this worksheet, today. Basically, you're on a sinking ship, you can only put 6 people on a life raft, and you can only take 5 pieces of equipment.
The people to chose from:
Yourself, your sibling, a pregnant woman, the ship's captain, your favourite rock star, a millionaire who offers you money, a priest, a policeman, a famous aboriginal dancer, a radio operator, a five-year-old, the fore mentioned child's mother, an old lady, a nursing sister, a paraplegic teenager, a comedian.
Sure, each person has some sort of worth. Example? The comedian brings his or her lightheartedness, that could be very helpful when stranded.
I won't add anything about the equipment you can choose from, and you chose to take - it's irrelevant to my point.
You take the pregnant woman, the five-year-old, the old lady, the paraplegic teenager - these four would find it the hardest to swim. Then of course, the five-year-old would be much more comfortable if his/her mother went, so she goes, too. I'm not sure how it works, but I'm presuming that a paraplegic teenager would require a carer, so the nursing sister goes along, as well.
You don't chose yourself.
This is where I get serious.
Firstly, this is a hypothetical situation, of course. So, when you're deciding who and what to take you're calm and collected and can think clearly. If you were really on a sinking ship, really likely to die, would you chose the morally correct? Would you send those six people off to find land while you stayed on that sinking ship to, well..perish?
Or would you, like any other human being, make yourself and those you care about - or those you personally want - the first and foremost to be on that life raft?
Can you, as a person, honestly be that selfless?
But, is anybody really selfless? Or is selfless just another of these words everyone uses to describe qualities that don't really ever exist in human beings?
You can't be selfless without being selfish. It just doesn't work that way. In one way or another, it benefits you. Makes you happy, gives you those warm fuzzies. You expect some sort of praise for your good deed - even if you don't realise it, you do. And you won't realise it, until you don't get it.
Human beings are selfish. Naturally. And selflessness equals selfishness.
So, I'll leave you with a two questions:
Who would you chose to put on your life-raft? And, do you believe people really can be selfless?
~exoh. Amy.
PS; I'll have a proper blog for you by this time next week.
PPS; SHORT STACK TOMORROW OMG. :)
PPPS; Pick the lyrics, anyone?