Analysis On Rand's Essay 'The Ethnics Of Emergencies'

The essay of “The Ethnics of Emergencies”, Rand has mentioned how people base on their moral standards and ethnics to make decision on emergencies situations. Rand has described psychological results of altruism is who willing to sacrifice one’s for the others in the emergencies situations in order to survive. Also, she has talks about the reciprocal altruism, which is helping others and expecting for a return in the future. According to Wikipedia, “reciprocal altruism is a behavior whereby an organism acts in a manner that temporarily reduces its fitness while increasing another organism's fitness, with the expectation that the other organism will act in a similar manner at a later time.” Nowadays, in most emergency situations it is not necessary to follow Rand’s ideas which is
Rand’s ideas are not really suitable, and necessary to apply on any emergency situation in the society today. The reason is most emergency situation only last for a short period of time, and there are always have a better way to survive in an emergency instead of sacrificing ourselves or others. In an emergency situation, people mostly think about how to cooperate and survive together, and that’s how is human nature running today. The essay of the ethnics of emergencies, Rand’s ideas are too extreme in the moral environment today. If people follow Rand’s ideas, then there will be a lot of unnecessary killing and sacrificing when thing happens. It is not the only way to handle an emergency, and we can still survive if people willing to cooperate. During emergency everyone is in danger, and there is no point to make an even worst situation which is killing others or sacrificing ourselves to survive. If that’s the case, once we get into an emergency in order to survive is either kill someone or be killed by someone. That’s not how things work today in the world or