Hindsight is 20/20. These people tried at least. Here in Edmonton recently, taking that kind of stupid risk meant two young men pulled a mom and her baby to safety out of a collapsing house before fire got to them. It could so easily have gone the other way, yes, but.... until it's all said and done, you never know how you'd react in a similar situation. I know my dad's family terribly miss both his sister, and the man who died trying to rescue her, but I doubt if I'd been in his place that I'd have not tried.
When I was 9 and the only one in my house when it was burning down around me, my neighbor's father and my brother/sister knocked on windows to locate where I was and all that good stuff but were smart enough not to enter the house and add more possible victims.... I eventually found my way out and escaped when about 2 minutes later the fire dept showed up, and granted every other situation out there is completely different, I would never ask nor want anybody to enter a burning building to save my skin.
But to each their own.
My brother's best friend when they were about the same age a few years earlier went out to save a kid who got pulled out by the tides while swimming and they both drowned..... when it comes to situations like the above, everybody makes their decisions on what's right to do..... in the end, we pay the price for such decisions..... maybe it's a good price, maybe it's a bad price.... and if I didn't get out on my own when I did.... then it too would have been my own natural selection.
Yes, it is... human beings fight for their tribe. Human beings react, and try to help. Sometimes it's detrimental, but without that risk taking, we never would have made it to where we are. I know you think you're 'above' the masses prax, but, natural selection drives much of our instinctual action.
Life is full of risk..... my entire point is to at least take one or two seconds to think about what you're about to do before you actually do it to determine the risks and if they're worth it..... those one or two seconds might be critical in determining if someone lives or dies, but that's all pretty irrelevant if they die anyways and you die along with them.
Sure you may look like a hero, but both of you are still dead aren't you?
I suppose it's the thought that counts.
