[A. Snodgrass]

I dont believe that it is moronic to sacrifice your own life to save anothers for one reason. Could you live with yourself if you knew for a fact that you could have saved anothers life, even if it meant the loss of your own? It depends on your view of life, both your own and the other persons. My personal feeling on it is I would have trouble living with myself and the knowledge that I could have saved somebody even if it meant I risked my own life. John I find it sad that you think its about comparison, because in the end Im not sure it is. Sometimes its not believing that you are any better or worse then the people around you but more about feeling that you can make a difference as a human being. We are all people with various different talents. If we work together we create a new whole tapestry and make the world a richer place for our living in it.

Very intellegent people over the years have thought it was more important to risk their own lives for others then their lives would be knowing they could do something and dont. To risk your life takes a lot of courage, and a lot of bravery. To be able to overcome the fear of losing your own life, even to save another person can be a very hard conscious decision. In caring about other lives, you enrich your own.
Obviously there are some people who agree with me or we would not have Police, Fire Fighters or paramedics or emts. These people put their lives on the line for not the masses, but often just one or two lives. They do it over and over again. Relief and aid workers go into situations where they could die from disease or from the tensions of a third world country, to save individuals, not masses. Doctors and Nurses go into warzones in order to save the lives of injured solders, as well as risking disease and in some of the rougher areas attacks and death threats against themselves and their families.