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When Should The Seventh Man Forgive Himself Analysis

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Should the Seventh man forgive himself? The word forgive is a bigger word in this context. Itś bigger due to the fact that the question is asking should the Seventh man forgive himself for his friends death. The Seventh man should definitely forgive himself. The Seventh man should forgive himself because he had no control of the situation. The wave was completely out of his control, the storm was completely out of his control. When you look at it the Seventh man feel subjective guilt as we see in The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt ¨subjective guilt is associated with the sense of responsibility because one feels guilty despite the fact that he knows he has done nothing wrong.¨ As before the Seventh man had no control over the weather of the day had no control over when the wave would have struck. If we look back The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt we see how all the soldiers stories none of them had control over the situation. We see how none of them had any knowledge of knowing what was going to happen to their friends. The Seventh man should not feel guilty for not having control of the situation. The Seventh man should …show more content…

people would argue that they believe that the Seventh man had time the Seventh man questions that himself. ¨I knew the truth. I knew I could have saved K. if I had tried. I probably could have run over and dragged him out of reach of the wave. It would have been close, but as I went over the timing of the events in memory, it always seemed to me that I could have made it.¨ Itś pointless argue the fact that he could have possibly saved him, but the Seventh man also said it could have been close and that he may not of made it. A lot of people would say that the seventh man should not forgive himself because in the radio broadcast neighbors are supposed to be there for each other. Though those neighbors were adults those neighbors were not

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