by It's Me

Created on: September 20, 2008

This is a hard question. The humanity stand point would be for me to say yes you have to help these people. Then I step back and look at the whole situation and I have to say my views change.

This recently happened near where I live. The people were told to get out or face certain death. Now if there were reasons people couldn't leave then I would say you have to go in and help these people because they didn't leave for a good reason. That's not the case though. These people were all supplied a form of transportation to leave and a place to stay. To me that removes all the reasons of why a person would have to stay. They have been provided a way to leave, a place to stay, food, everything they need.

So why stay? Being there will not stop their things from being ruined. They can't stop the storm. Can't stop the water from harming the contents of the house. So what exactly is the point of staying behind? That's like me saying "I know my house is burning but if I stay I may keep my things from burning with it". That's just plain stupid.

Now let me get down to the real reason I don't think the government should send people to the rescue. There are millions of people in this world. Yet there are only a select few who are willing to give their lives and risk their lives to protect us Americans. Then you also have to consider the families who give up their husband, son , daughter, wife, dad, mom, brother, or sister so that we can enjoy the things we take for granted. If these people are so selfless then why should any of us have the right to be so selfish that we have to put these men and women on the line? These people have far more important things they could be doing rather than risking themselves to help somebody who had the chance to leave but chose to ignore warnings and ride out a storm even though they were given everything they needed to leave?

So you see a part of me says these are people so you have to help them, you can't just leave them. Then there is the part of me that wins out in the end. These people made their choice why do we need to risk our few brave men and women over something so trivial as to choose to stay so you can save contents of your house or what ever they think they are doing by riding out the storm? Yes it is a tragedy when people lose their home and all it's contents and it is an even bigger tragedy when it is thousands who lose it all at once. Tragedies happen and what becomes of them is up to the one who lost everything. They have a

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