What an excellent post. Beautifully thought out and extremely well written. I have worked in roles where I have had to make extremely hard decisions and many of my former colleagues still do today. What I can say from my own experience is most people don’t stop to consider allocation of priorities or resources when it’s down to patient numbers and hopes of meaningful recovery for those involved. I.e. do we devote time to someone who has no chance of meaningful recovery when five others could benefit from that attention and our resources and they do have a chance of recovery. The many or one in those types of cases...Interestingly for those accustomed to those types of decisions when they are watching a loved one with no hope of recovery they detach and accept the choices in relation to how staff allocate resources to others... essentially giving up hope outside of making last moments as comfortable as possible but also understanding the why’s and what’s of what is occurring throughout. For the average day to day person though.. it’s unpredictable. In regards to myself? Could I shove a family member on the tracks in hopes of saving others? Or a best friend? Dunno. In my experience we all behave unpredictably in unfamiliar intense moments where split second decisions have to be made. Morality tends to exercise itself through immediate impulse and normally it’s all thought about later. This was an awesome thought provoking post and it’s content like this that makes me wish my vote had more weight. Definitely clicking follow and looking forward to more content. Keep on steeming. :)
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Thank you for your kind words, I appreciate them.
It must be hard to make those kinds of decisions you make on a daily basis.
I wanted to mention something, it also depends on the person, usually, when one sees a traffic accident here, many people ignore to avoid problems with the authorities and also because sometimes are vandals posing as an accident. But there are people who react differently, they stop to help the injured people, even knowing that they expose their lives. They are brave people whom I admire. I couldn't do that.
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