The Moral Logic Of Survivor's Guilt

In the world there are around 7.5 billion people, and in at least one fourth of those people have gone through traumatic experience and they have felt even a little bit of guilt. Everybody has felt guilt in their lives even if it was even a minor thing, but the difference is survivor's guilt has a lot more to go on with a person’s state of well being. Many people argue whether survivors of life and death situations should go through survivor's guilt. Some people believe survivors should go through the guilt, others feel they should not have to grough through it. Survivors of life and death situations should go through survivor’s guilt. Survivor's guilt is the mental condition that a person goes through when they feel as if they have done something wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others were not as lucky. First of all, survivors of life and death situations should feel survivor's guilt because it shows that the person that is going through the phase just cares about the person that may have passed away or something that might have taken place.”The Moral Logic of Survivor’s Guilt” by Nancy Sherman is an Editorial Article, about a captain who felt guilty for one of his soldiers

The guilt can expand the thinking that a person might have but when a person thinks about the guilt they can start healing because they come to realize the truth. In the text it states, “ We often take responsibility in a way that goes beyond what we can reasonably be held responsible for.”(para. 6, Moral Logic) This quote from the text shows that people all around the world usually take blame or responsibility over things they may have not done. That further explains the claim that people should feel survivor's guilt because it occurs in many ways, in ways where they don’t even take thought of it and just act upon feeling guilt, which allows them to