They are, I kind of miss wearing them too! Every time I look over to my closet, I see them staring at me staring at them. It’s like this complicated relationship between woman and jeans. And every time I do look at them, there’s like this sad, sad song played with string accompaniments with some piano too.
Okay, not really. But I’ve been gaining weight, and I better do something about it…
I’ve been reading this short story for English class, and it’s quite interesting. Interesting and weird at the same time. The story starts off with soldiers on court martial, explaining their cases and what-have-you. Then, we see them inside the submarine and what really happens.
They were stuck in a submarine under the sea. They only had oxygen that would last for less than three days for all 20 men plus the captain. The rescue had to be delayed since there was a storm around their area and will be arriving for seven days. The captain decided to let the 5 men with families to live and the others, including the captain himself, were to die with poisoned drinks. The five didn’t really have much say in it since their fellow soldiers were all either dead or shrieking in pain when the captain decided to tell them the whole story. The story ends with the officer asking the jury (which in this case would be the reader) whether the five men are guilty or not.
Throughout the story, the captain has been the one deciding and scheming on this. He tells the five men with families that this mission was only something they could do.
My take on who’s guilty? I suppose it’s the captain since he decided on who would live and who will die. The five men have nothing to do with this since they weren’t the one who decided on anything. They didn’t plan for the others to die either, it was all the captain’s decision. Besides, the captain even admitted to being guilty! I don’t see why the five men are on trial, are they being suspected of conspiracy or whatever? It doesn’t really say.
Why is my English homework so… complicated. >_>
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Vagueness and ethical dilemnas don’t mix if you ask me. And in that case, definitely the captain is at fault. The other men didn’t make a conscious decision to kill their fellow sailors and at worst just accepted it. But then again I’ve heard that when it comes to the military there are really extreme examples of people in the armed forces doing things without thinking twice. Like our psych prof was saying how there was this Canadian sub that had a fire on board, and how the men nearest ran towards it to put it out and shut the doors behind them so it wouldn’t spread, effectively sealing their fate. But later one when the surviving members were questioned by the media “It must have been horrifying, how did you feel” they almost always got a response along the lines of “Yeah it was terrible, we almost lost the boat.”
So yeah, long story, all to say I agree with your point but wouldn’t be so quick to judge the Captain either. I think that story could be almost a commentary on the armed forces too, and the ethics behind that kind of community.
Lol, can you tell I miss English and being asked questions like this? *sigh*
Posted 29 Sep 2007 at 10:20 pm ¶That reminds me on the story I once read, when a plain crashed in mountains and when people were trapped there for a long time, they slowly started eating the ones that died.
I do not think that ethics can play any part in moments like that. When a human is pushed to the edge, he acts like an animal.
However, this didn’t happen in your story, since captain didn’t decide to save himself. That was not ethical either, but you could maybe say that it was noble, if he didn’t decide to kill all those sailors as well.
We never have something this interesting at our native language classes, we always just talk about 100 forms of our language and other boring stuff.
Posted 30 Sep 2007 at 12:59 am ¶*on a story
Sorry.
Posted 30 Sep 2007 at 1:00 am ¶It seems obvious that the captain is guilty, since he was the one that poisoned them and the ones that lived didn’t even know until it was too late.
I think I quite admire the captain for sacrificing himself and letting those with families live.
Posted 30 Sep 2007 at 8:01 am ¶Hmm. What a story! It sounds like such a complicated situation. Way too “moral” for an English class.
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