ELA 9B HMH Unit 1 "Is Survival Selfish?"

In moments of mortal danger, more people freeze than run, a response that goes against our survival instincts.

In extreme crises, people either hold it together or fall apart, and there is no telling who the heroes will be until danger strikes.

Heroes are admired when they risk or sacrifice their own lives to save others, but their actions go against accepted survival protocols, which prioritize personal safety.

People who demonstrate the virtue of selfishness by putting their own lives before the lives of others in an emergency are often criticized publicly and in the press.

structure

rule

law

falsehood

each survivor is heroic in their own way

it is impossible to generalize about survivors

only a few survivors are selfish and uncivilized

it is impossible to be smart and unselfish

To prove she’s an expert during survival situations

To explain why she become interested in the topic of survival

To highlight the difference between those who survive and those who don’t

To introduce the idea that sometimes people’s instincts are not about survival

They believe they should have done more to help others during the event.

They are reminded of when they didn’t help others at other times of their lives.

They are disturbed by the harsh criticisms from others who survived.

They feel that the techniques others used to survive were unethical.

a hasty generalization, intended to convey that people do not know what they will do in a crisis

an overstatement, intended to convey that how people react depends on which signals, out of the many they receive, they respond to

an overstatement, intended to convey that survivors are able to respond to many signals

at once

a hasty generalization, intended to convey that survivors are rarely aware of the choices, whether selfish or selfless, they make in a crisis

She got out of the plane and survived. Very few others in the plane, which was soon consumed by fire, did. (paragraph 7)

If she’d tried, she probably would have perished with them.(paragraph 8)

But Yates was criticized by some for his survival decision, even though the alternative would have almost certainly led to both of their deaths. (paragraph 10)

If survival is an instinct, it seems to me that there must be something equally instinctive that drives us, sometimes, to run into danger instead of away from it. (paragraph 12)

Yates cut the rope tying him to his friend because there was nothing else to be done.

Carly put a first aid kit in her car in case of an emergency.

Even though we have a survival instinct we sometimes face danger to save others.

People left the train station when they heard an explosion.