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Originally Posted by Wild Goose
... you know, there's just so much wrong with this statement that I don't really know where to begin, so I'm just going to call it a night and continue tomorrow.
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Might be that having been in several accidents before, I tend to have a less disturbable personality.
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Originally Posted by arkhangelsk
Then let's stop pussyfooting around and pretending people can necessarily get out of sinking tanks by themselves without help, or that this is not a life-threatening situation. Admit at least a few lives could probably have been saved with more contemporary values, and then declare righteously that for the sake of the values of these old martial arts those few lives can be sacrificed. Because that's what will happen if those old values hold sway.
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I do not recognize the situation as life-threatening short of an incompetent crew. Therefore, whatever you say in the statement above has no application in my view. If the situation was actually life-threatening, then of course by the honor code of martial arts rescue should be attempted. The problem here is that we have different understandings of the situation and therefore have different boundaries around where we select our actions.