Taking Advantage of a Situtation

How many people in this United States I shall say, would step up to the plate to take advantage of a hardening situation? If anyone knows or has polls on evaluated people on certain situations of how they would proceed, I would like to know this information. I am speaking of life or death situations. If a person had to put their life on the line, in order to save say the life of 100 people, how many would proceed with it? What if they knew the person(s)? If a person had to save a life of possible a family member or close friend, how many would proceed with that?

People are only here for themselves, and as individuals, we sometimes forget about others. We forget that we are not in total isolation from other beings; we forget that we are not separated away from others. Our world, as of any other time, needs to see this fact that we should focus on others rather than ourselves.

Here is a good example. Say a military man is fighting in wartime. He knows he can save about 100 lives, of our enemy. The enemy has waved the white flag and has given up. Now, the military man has vowed to kill our enemy on sight. But the enemy has put down their weapons and are ready to proceed with any constructive measures rather than death. What does the military man do? Does he proceed with killing our enemy to show other enemys that we, stick to our vows of killing another man to prove ourselves? Or does the military man acknowledge the fact that the enemy will convene and understand our reason for wartime, and not kill our enemy?

I hope people will understand our meaning for our existence. It is not to kill and violate one another. We are all brothers and sisters of our oldest ancestors. Let us fold our hands together with another, and let us work together. Not all of us are at war.