Someones gotta go...

The abandon ship activity clearly defined our values of how "worthy" one person was of living over another. The rate at which our group eliminated some of the members was astounding, and some of them we didnt even consider letting them stay. The drug dealer, the old couple, and the fat millionaire didnt have much of a chance because they have no usefulness on the boat. However, we kept some people who were disabled and physically could not help row. The quarter master and the army captain both stayed despite physical imperfections. The quarter master was kept because he was the father of four children at home, and we decided a wounded father was more valuble to keep aboard than a healthy single millionaire. However, the old couple had the largest family of all, but their children were already parents themselves, so nobody depended direcely on them. If the grandparent was raising a grandchild for one reason or another, it definatly would have changed the situation. The new reality on the boat forced desperate decisions to be made, and what easier way to make them then my majority vote. No one person took direct charge, which probably would have been different had this been a real situation. Different cultures that value different traits in a person would have done the activity differently. This idea of a unique sociological reality is prevalent in many different instances, the F227 and the abandon ship are just a couple examples.