Every time I read or hear about helicopters
and teams sent out, often dangerously, to search for and rescue someone, I am
on the one hand amazed and humanely pleased that we care so much, and on the
other hand, appalled at the economic (and probably unsustainable) imbalance. Historians
of the future will marvel at how much resource expenditure went into trying to
preserve, save, or rescue ONE human life, and how this philosophy diffused from
the US and the West to the rest of the world.
The search and rescue, the humanitarian aid, the life support. We take it for granted, but shouldn’t. Previous civilizations would have said, “tough
$%#@!”
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