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> On the ground, there are tales of heroism > His wife and child safely evacuated > I hid when the order arrived to evacuate This isn't heroism. This is comp
by Benjamin_Dobell 5y ago
> On the ground, there are tales of heroism
> His wife and child safely evacuated
> I hid when the order arrived to evacuate
This isn't heroism. This is complete and utter stupidity. Whoever wrote this article should be fired on the spot.
The advice is there for a reason. People die doing this all the time. I know someone (a child at the time) whose parents went back to try protect their house. That child was raised without parents.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
- jacquesm 5y agoPeople are generally not equipped to see their life's work annihilated in a couple of minutes and will quite literally die to protect it. That's human nature and you should not be too harsh on them.
- MattGaiser 5y agoYes we should as harshness is required to counteract that human nature.
- jacquesm 5y agoGood luck with that. You can't tell people a life long that their possessions and their future are entwined and then yank that away from them and expect them not to - briefly - be in a state of confusion. It's pretty easy to be all rational from a couple of thousand miles away but these scenes play out over and over again in the face of imminent natural disaster. Berating those people is not going to solve it, and I suspect as these stories become more common people will give up their possessions more easily once realization sets in that their attempts are futile and only endanger them. But we are not there yet, and in some ways that is fortunate. The time when that sort of feeling becomes more commonplace will be harsh.