What Would You Do ?

       Place your self in a graveyard late one night you're doing your duties as a grave digger just any ordinary night when all of a sudden a hand pops out of the ground and grabs your foot.         YOU BREAK FREE AND RUN !!!!! Being the grave digger knowing of this what do you do? Would you save your job and keep this information to yourself knowing it could lead to the death of people, people you may know, OR do you tell potentially loosing your job but saving the lives of many?  To most people this would be easy because its easier to get a new job than to fight for your life.






       In the move Dance of The Dead(2008) the grave digger did not do such. The grave digger had prior knowledge of this potential zombie invasion but keeps it to him self in-order to save his job.Although not knowing what exactly caused it until later in the film he knew that people would not want him working there if they got word of what he believed that he saw. Would it be considered egoism if one was to hide something of such magnitude in order to prevent him from loosing his job the one thing that allows him to provide for his family? 

   " [seeing the zombies rise out of their graves] Ah hell!"
-Grave Digger  

        If the grave digger needs his job in order to provide for his family then some would see it as a selfless act to keep this information to him self because without the job his family is starving and without the essentials needed to survive.As Blackburn states "Suppose though he does make such opportunities,and gladly takes them,and shows few or no regrets for what other pleasures he may be missing by taking them."(Blackburn 30) If the grave digger would have taken to opportunity to tell someone of this threat then many he would have the rest of his life to live in joy but now he must fight off zombies to protect the ones he loves. Putting the lives of his family and friends in danger all because of a job.

Jimmy Dunn (Left),Lindsey(Right)

       Now look at it from the perspective of the towns people what if he would have spoken up. Would the lives of Mitch,Kyle,Gwen,Stephan,and all of the other towns people that were killed and turned into zombies have been spared.Maybe not, but it would have given them a chance to at least try. What if they had known about the leak from the plant that was causing the dead to become zombies maybe they had an even better advantage. A great advantage knowing that they could stop the dead from rising by stopping the leak. But without any knowledge of such activity they had nothing to worry about. "the person has self-interested motives and ignores the legitimate needs of others"(Salazar 1392) If the grave digger would have hid this secret for any other reason than to save his job than is may be considered self less but because he knew that if he said anything his job would be gone he let the town free to discover the misfortune that was caused by the leaking power plant. When this misfortune was discovered it was already to late. He chanced loosing his life for his job. 

       If you were in this situation what would you do ? Do you think what the grave digger did was an act of egoism or was he just trying to protect the family that he loves? 
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Refrences

Salazar, Heather. “Self-Interest,” The New Catholic Encyclopedia, Series on Ethics and Morality, ed. by Robert  Fastiggi. Gale Cengage Learning, 2013

Blackburn, Simon. Being Good, A Short Introduction to Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2001