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Originally Posted by jasper12
..............Situations like this are pretty much a demonstration of the "Darwin Theory", survival of the fittest. Young, strong folks could commandeer deck chairs and set up a tent using sheets from the room. They can easily hike up stairs, carrying goods and scout for water. ....................
............Conditions like this can easily disintegrate into "pack" mentality. And social structure can change pretty quickly. I think a few more days on the boat, and there would have been riots........
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I'm afraid this assessment might be correct, but because this was a non life-threatening situation with help coming, even if it is arriving slowly, in this situation a decent human beings should have been organizing so that everyone was cared for and someone should have taken the old and blind into their care.
A strong leader should have seen that the crew was disorganized and taken them over (by charisma, not force) and taken over food distribution and organized water and sewer as best as possible.
In a disaster where help will arrive (the tsunami in Japan, hurricanes, earthquakes), then you help dig out survivors and tend the wounded. It is only in a situation where help is never going to arrive that you pull up the drawbridge and place your own family first.
Some one could have gone to the crew and said, "this is what we are going to do" and the crew would have followed, simply because they did not know what to do. They would have been relieved that someone who had everything under control would give them a task. That also is part of human nature. Most people are followers and they will gladly fall in and follow if there is someone to follow.
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