Bad luck is the cause of most survival situations. Natural disasters, wrong-place-wrong time ordeals, and accidents take the brunt of accountability for putting people in life-or-death positions. “Usually, when people need to be rescued, it’s because something unexpected happened” (The Cost of Survival 127). When people need to be rescued from these unexpected circumstances, they should not be held accountable. The circumstance itself is accountable, and the victims cannot do anything to stop the unexpected. …show more content…
Specifically subjective versus objective guilt. “Subjective guilt… is thought to be irrational because one feels guilty despite the fact that he knows he has done nothing wrong. Objective or rational guilt, by contrast--guilt that is “fitting” to one’s actions… guilt is appropriate because one has acted to deliberately harm someone, or could have prevented harm and did not” (Sherman 154). The separation of guilt shows how unrelated the two groups are, and how they must be treated differently. One has done nothing wrong, and the other has knowingly done damage. For example “The Seventh Man” exhibits how someone can feel guilt even though they have done no harm. “I knew the truth. I knew that I could have saved K. if I had tried” (Murakami