It all happened in a second. The difference between life and death. He chose life, even though it cost another’s. His choice was to save himself. And not his friend. His failure to save his friend K, was human error, and it was utterly inevitable. When faced with the decision to save his own life over another innocent person's life, it is reasonable to say that the survivor to say they did all they could. And he did. He made a point to call out to K and K didn’t respond. Some say that there was more he could have done, but there was no way for him to save himself and K. When in a life over death situation, we are taught that the most important thing to think about is ourselves. It may seem selfish, but the logic behind is life saving. When
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He does deserve forgiveness for human error. In this case, human error resulted in the death of an innocent. In this instance, human error resulted in the greatest loss that we know of and nothing can change what happened. The human brain is wired to keep the body safe. When the brain is posed with a life or death situation, the brain can react in a number of ways. There are three recognized ways that the brain responds to stressful and traumatic events. They are the fight, flight or freeze responses. In the seventh man’s instance, his brain reacted with the flight response, not thinking about the safety of his friend, because his main focus was on getting to the safety of the sea wall. In cases like these, the victim of the traumatic events should not be held accountable for their actions because “in such alarming instances, you’d experience trepidation, panic, horror, dread. And these extreme feelings would be so fraught with anxiety, so laden with terror, that almost no one is “gifted” with the resources required to stay fully in the present—which is precisely what’s needed to “process” to emotional and physical completion, or release, what so frighteningly besieges you (2015 Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D.).” In the seventh man’s story, before the first wave tumbled onto the beach, he had an untamable fear that was very real. He says that “my fear is totally groundless--and totally real (the seventh man 137).” This fear that he felt, it mobilized him and before he had time to contemplate whether the should save K. or himself he was already running the opposite direction of K and the towering wave that hovered above him, waiting till the moment where it would crash and swallow K. whole. He shouldn’t have to carry the burden of responsibility, when he was only reacting out of fear for his life. Even though he was unable to save K, the seventh man should not
He does deserve forgiveness for human error. In this case, human error resulted in the death of an innocent. In this instance, human error resulted in the greatest loss that we know of and nothing can change what happened. The human brain is wired to keep the body safe. When the brain is posed with a life or death situation, the brain can react in a number of ways. There are three recognized ways that the brain responds to stressful and traumatic events. They are the fight, flight or freeze responses. In the seventh man’s instance, his brain reacted with the flight response, not thinking about the safety of his friend, because his main focus was on getting to the safety of the sea wall. In cases like these, the victim of the traumatic events should not be held accountable for their actions because “in such alarming instances, you’d experience trepidation, panic, horror, dread. And these extreme feelings would be so fraught with anxiety, so laden with terror, that almost no one is “gifted” with the resources required to stay fully in the present—which is precisely what’s needed to “process” to emotional and physical completion, or release, what so frighteningly besieges you (2015 Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D.).” In the seventh man’s story, before the first wave tumbled onto the beach, he had an untamable fear that was very real. He says that “my fear is totally groundless--and totally real (the seventh man 137).” This fear that he felt, it mobilized him and before he had time to contemplate whether the should save K. or himself he was already running the opposite direction of K and the towering wave that hovered above him, waiting till the moment where it would crash and swallow K. whole. He shouldn’t have to carry the burden of responsibility, when he was only reacting out of fear for his life. Even though he was unable to save K, the seventh man should not