The responsibility of the cost of life is a big one. You are responsible for your own life, but are you always responsible for the life of others? Of course you are! It is part of being a human on this planet. We have the responsibility to our fellow humans to be the best person we can be, and that means that you should help and take care of others all the time. But if others have the zeal to survive, then it does not always lie on you.
The Titanic was a big deal in that time in history. It was said to be unsinkable. We now know that that statement was untrue, but at the time they thought it was accurate. The ship hit an iceberg, yes, and that is what caused it to sink. But the people on that boat thought they would be safe no matter what because the men who built that amazing boat said that they could not sink. I do not know about you, but if I was told that I was on a ship that could not sink, I would feel pretty safe. The people who built that ship have to take some responsibility for the one thousand and some odd deaths that occurred in the early hours of the morning on April 15, 1912. They said the passengers of that ship never had to worry about going down, but they were mistaken. But, they can also take responsibility for the people who survived. They made the life boats that were hanging off the side of the ship, therefor saving over seven-hundred lives. But, without the zeal of those people to survive and get back home to their families, they would have had a lot more deaths to be responsible for.
Responsibility for life also occurs very clearly in The Call of the Wild. Buck was an ordinary dog, taken from his home and forced to go through many hardships. He ended up being the alpha dog, the head dog in charge. All the other dogs looked to him for what they should do, and for what was right. Buck had a responsibility for his own life, but also for the lives of the other dogs in the pack. Spitz, the alpha before Buck, was responsible for the lives of the pack, but that all changed when Buck ended Spitz's life. Buck was responsible for that life, and frankly, so were all the other dogs of the pack. But Buck later faced many other dogs to keep his status as alpha. He had to fight off many other dogs to stay in his position of power, and had he not had so much zeal to survive, he would have been dead.
So we all have a responsibility for life, and not just ours. Everyone around us. Whether we choose to realize this or not, is completely up to us. Will you choose to take this responsibility?
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