An example of such as excuse would be that they mistakenly thought they were being attacked by a civilian. Woodruff mentions another reason for harming or killing another person, and that reason is self-preservation. For example, if a soldier for some reason was forced to kill a
Introduction: Michael Bruce, born in Alberta, was a gunner in the Canadian Army during the Second World war. He spent three years overseas in the artillery and in a note to MacLean's, which published his "Gentleman, Your Verdict" (Jan.1.1947), he said the idea for his story: grew out of a barrack room argument -whether a commander was justified in sacrificing some of his men to save other". Gentlemen, Your Verdict written by Michael Bruce A submarine lies helpless at the bottom of the sea. Inside are twenty men –trapped. Rescue will not arrive for seven days.
Pelsaert, being the commandeer went to seek help from the port of Batavia with 30 others at his side as it was some 1,200 miles away. They left behind 268 castaways including Jacobsz and Cornelisz. In the first week many people died of starvation and thirst. Then Cornelisz constructed plan and convinced a small group of followers that there only chance of survival was to kill off everyone else and wait for Pelsaert to return and set off with the rescue vessel or if he didn’t return they would just build a new ship out of the wreckage. After moving a group of 45 soldiers to a nearby island under false pretences Cornelisz’ followers began to kill off people that posed a threat to them or caused any trouble.
“While being lifted onto an LST, he was almost dropped into the sea, having only been caught by the foot. After laying in the hold with hundreds of other wounded, he finally got a spot on the USS Samaritan.”(Standring Pg.5) Happily, the flag went up on Suribachi, just before Lucas was shipped off to Honolulu. Lucas went under the knife twenty two times before the doctors were finished. “Surprisingly, there are about 200 pieces of scrap iron still in him, some the size of .22-caliber bullets, which to this day, constantly set off airport metal detectors.”(Carpenter Pg.1) After close to seven months, Lucas was in good enough shape to be separated and put up for the Medal of Honor. At the time, the young man did not even know what it was, claimed “I went there to do one thing, and that was to
The hurricane hits the Outer Banks, and a ship sunk and was drowning. There were people in the ship, and the surf men rescued a baby boy, his mother, and two other sailors. Nathan’s realize that he could never be able to do what the surf men were doing, but he helped the baby and the injured sailor because he learned what to do in the medical books. Name of protagonist: Nathan, Mr. Etheridge, Mr. Meekins, Mr.Pugh, Mrs.Gardiner Conflict: The conflict of the story is that the surf men went rescued sailors whose ship sunk and were drowning in a storm, but it was hard to save them. Resolution: The resolution is that surf men could save everybody from the ship and Nathan helped the rescuers thanks to what he learned from the medical books.
The Case of R v Dudley & Stephens 1) Briefly state what happened in R v Dudley & Stephens In the case of R v Dudley & Stephens there was a sailboat that was struck by a wave due to the wave the boat was sinking and there was 3 people on the lifeboat that people had to get on. Steven, Stephens and Parker. The 3 then went on to an island where they were basically stranded and had nowhere to go. They spent 20 days on the Island before coming to a decision that they wanted to perform a cannibalism act on Richard Parker the 17 year old. After 4 days the two then saw a rescue which was coming to get them, which was by a German sailing barque Montezuma which returned the men to Falmouth, Cornwall.
Around 6:30 PM, authorities trace Dzhokhar to a Watertown backyard, where he is found hiding in a boat and taken into custody after hours of searching. On April 22, Dzhokhar was charged with having used a weapon of mass destruction in the marathon attacks; if convicted, he faced the possibility of the death
What about one man? Can any one person be allowed to decide the fates of others? In Michael Bruce’s “Gentlemen, Your Verdict,” the character Lieutenant-Commander Oram chose to end the lives of fifteen men on his crew including himself in order to leave enough oxygen for the remaining five men on his submarine, keeping them alive long enough to be rescued. While this may seem at first glance to be a mercy to those five, it was in fact nothing more than an unjust, unqualified, and unethical decision. The difference between a decision that is moral and one that is lawful is often far too separate for some people’s comfort, but as a civilized species we have established these laws for a reason and it is our duty to adhere to them.
These officers took matters to a level they never should have considered let alone followed through with. The ethical decision in this dilemma was made by a third party individual, a cadet, who reported this incident. An alternative course of action in this case would have been to follow procedure and keeping their cameras on. Had this happened then all this mess would have been avoided and an individual wouldn’t have gotten hurt. Another alternative course of action would have been for the chief and department to answering the questions from the media instead of refusing to speak to them.
Instead, the book shows man inability to give up. Throughout the novel Billy just wants to give up and die, and through no fault of his own, he is unable to achieve this. Billy feels no pride in fighting for individual liberty in World War II, although I understand that his experiences in Dresden are perhaps a great cause of this, I think he would have felt the same way had he not been in Dresden. Billy shows none of the pride and enthusiasm of fighting against Communism that we commonly associate with World War II. Perhaps this is another reason that this book has been censored.