Letting Go A Few For The Many Isn't Justice
There is nothing that I dread so much in life being held up in a dilemma, unfortunately that is life's favorite way of building us into maturity.
Daily we live by making choices, we let other things go in order for others to thrive, it's a principle that one must learn to master or else he/she might be held in one spot never going forward or backward because we can't carry everything with us.
I am a lover of action movies. I have seen scenes where soldiers go for rescue missions and in the process meet a situation where they are to choose between sacrificing a few to save many or allow all to perish and they take the first option. I will be honest with you, I used to feel bad for the sacrificed few.
Even if it were just two persons that were left behind and a thousand were rescued, I used to feel like the soldiers didn't do their jobs very well.
But this prompt got me into thinking and I tried to put myself in their shoes. I had to ask myself the question, "If you were the soldier in that situation, what would you do"?
For a moment, my heart began racing, my head filled up and my emotions were affected. Honestly, answering this question is not as easy as it looks.
Either the multitude or the few, both of these have life, all have families, all have dreams, and none of them wants to die. I am already imagining the situation, imagine how it will hurt for you to be left behind after seeing salvation almost at your door. It doesn't sound funny at all.
Nevertheless, a choice must be made, else all will fall into the wrong hands, and at the end of the day if you fail to rescue or bring relief to any of these parties then you have failed.
Whenever I am faced with the issue of choice, my favorite approach to tackling it is checking the value or worth of what I am confronted with.
If I choose to sacrifice a few to bring comfort to many, the first thing I'll check is the benefits that would come after that action. Will that sacrifice be worth it at the end of the day? The comfort that will come, is it going to last, and hope it won't be abused?
If I arrive at a positive answer at the end, I'll take the next step, but if the answers are negative, I'd rather let everyone suffer or try to carry everyone along, and if it doesn't work fine, at least I have tried.
Life is expensive, once it's gone, it's gone, laying down one's life for others is one of the biggest gifts anyone can offer. I know how funny humans can be, you can waste your life trying to do something for the masses, but give them a few days, they will forget your efforts if they don't even turn their backs on you.
Instead of sacrificing a few for the many, let all suffer and find their way out, those who survived fine, those who couldn't make it, that is it. Come to think of it, What if those you are sacrificing are even the ones to bring change in the world subsequently? What if the multitude are only a bunch of fools? Honestly, I don't buy into the idea of sacrificing anyone to save others.