As a class, these questions all need to be addressed, but no one person is responsible for all of them.
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1) Who is responsible for the well-being of the sadhu? What are the duties of the people involved? What action would best serve the good of everyone?
2) How are the problems here similar to problems that arise in organizations every day? What kinds of sadhus do people confront in everyday life?
3) Would McCoy's group have behaved differently if they had come across a Western man rather than a Sadhu?
1) Who is responsible for the well-being of the sadhu? What are the duties of the people involved? What action would best serve the good of everyone?
ReplyDelete- Everyone is responsible for the sadhu but no one took complete ownership of the Sadhu. Everyone helped with reviving the sadhu by providing clothing, food, and warmth. Team work, cooperation, ownership/leader and a plan of action would have best served the good of everyone..
I agree that everyone is responsible for the well-being of the sadhu. This includes the sadhu, who carries the most responsibility for his own well-being. Why was he not better equipped for the elements? His lack of preparation put the others in serious jeopardy.
DeleteWe all have different callings and agendas in life. The duties and actions depend on the individual person. I would have forgone my ascent to save his life, but I cannot speak for others. I would have questioned the others as to how they would like to be cared for if they were in his situation. Would they want someone to leave him for dead? Why bother giving him clothes, hats, shoes, and gloves if you are just going to leave him to die. Couldn't these resources be better used for a person who was going to continue climbing?
2) How are the problems here similar to problems that arise in organizations every day? What kinds of sadhus do people confront in everyday life?
ReplyDelete- There is not always a collaborative effort towards the final goal while receiving support from the group. Also, having individuals work towards one collective goal vs. individual goals.
- Most people helped the sadhu only when it was convenient for them. They would continue on and hope that the next person would pick up the slack.
- This is seen in our daily life. People have their individual ideas/goals and may not work ultimately together towards the final goal. Stress is another example.
3) Would McCoy's group have behaved differently if they had come across a Western man rather than a Sadhu?
ReplyDelete- Based upon the story, it does appear that the differing countrymen looked out for themselves and their own personal goals first, instead of the good of the cause. While each seemed to care somewhat, they were more self centered about achieving their own personal goals. Based upon the readings, I am not sure that nationality would have played too much difference in the decisions that were made. It makes one stop and think about what is more important in the grand scheme of life? Helping out a fellow human being, to survive, or to achieve a personal goal.
Lorian, I agree. Not really sure that nationality would have made any difference. It appeared that the men were on a mission to complete the task on hand..
DeleteI disagree. I think nationality would have made a difference. This is especially true if he was a white man. The sadhu appeared to be a poor peasant, and the climbers saw no real gain in forgoing their ascents to make sure he lived. There would have been other factors at play if he had been a westerner.
DeleteWould the group be more apt to help if this was someone who spoke their language, or communicate their need for help? Personally I would like to think that there is enough good in people to say no it wouldn’t have mattered who he was if they were set on their goal and were not willing to be distracted. However, I don’t think that is the right answer. I think that had this been someone who was an American, or European that could communicate, they would have stopped and helped. Sad but I think true.
ReplyDeleteTo help or not? On the one hand (the compassionate hand) you have a responsibility to your fellow man to help where you can. Any decent person would stop to help, to choose an achievement over a human life is deplorable.
On the other, this man lives in this area, why was he so underdressed for the weather. Regardless of sudden storms the top of the mountain was going to be cold no matter what. It reminds me of Sam Kinison’s desert/world hunger rant from 1985 HBO series. I won’t repeat it as it’s rather crass, but he makes a valid point. You live in a place where you know you’ll freeze to death at any moment but you don’t dress properly or take the precautions? Same with people who live in flood plains, or tornado allies. They always seem surprised when they are flooded or a tornado sweeps through. One could consider it thinning the heard. (Again just throwing out devil’s advocate arguments, I believe you have a responsibility to help).
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