Will to Survive

It's hard to decide to save someone else or themselves at a time of life-and-death situation. Some people decide by estimating how many people he could save. Some decide in terms of the importance of the person he is attempting to save. Some people decide whether they have a good chance of surviving. Lastly, some people decide whether the person they are saving is worth saving or not, which might be a combination of all these thoughts and analysis. Some people, however, just do their best to save lives without thinking about the situation, the effect of his action, or how he is going to be remembered. Theses are the real heroes. They risk their life in saving other people because they believe it is the right thing to do. There are only two kinds of people that would act on instinct without thinking. The one mentioned above, who saves people not considering the situation. And another one is the ones that flees without any thinking. People who act on behalf of reasoning and analysis is that they have a cost-benefit analysis going on in their head. That is, they decide whether their death can provide the world with more benefit. For example, if he is a nobody, and he is deciding whether he wants to save the president that has done very good things. He would think that trading lives, him to the president, would be the right thing to do because the president would benefit the world more. Some would also risk their life if they could save 10 people, 100 people, or 100,000 people, because they believe that the lives of 100,000 people is far more beneficial to the greater good than the life of himself.