On April 14, 1912, a haunting day in history was made the evening the Titanic sunk, killing 1,517 out of the 2,223 on board. taking hours to sink, thousands of men stayed aboard the sinking ship, in an attempt to give women and children a better chance. In 1915, a lesser known, but similar, tragedy occurred aboard the RMS Lusitania, taking 1,198 out of the 1,959 lives. However, out of those 1,198 survivors, most of them were men, unlike the survivors of the Titanic.
Now here's what I understand: with the panic of these life and death situations, the people that had enough time to set their morals straight were doing it out of thought process (AKA good manners), but those who had less time to weigh their options chose a more "selfish and rational option", showing an "impulse dominated behavior". So to boil it down for you, the acts on the titanic gave "manners" more time to kick in. Because the act of putting someone else's needs before yours, unfortunately, is something we need to be taught. Modern feminists today are struggling to find a ground to stand on with this topic, which no doubt is understandable. Those feminists are demanding for a world like the Lusitania, but in reality, are secretly hoping for an act like the Titanic. Are they really to be angry with the men who did the socially right thing to do, even though it is casting us to our "gender roles"? is it really a bad thing for men to be taught that a woman's needs are put before himself? or must we level out the playing field of rights by saying everyone's chances need to be equal? Well, unfortunately, the outcome of this was leaving many wives and children to the waves. In the light of the Word, these "manners", "instincts" and whatever else seculars want to call it, is something we as Christians call morals. When push comes to shove, civilization depends on us choosing a world like the Titanic; without so, we would be just as doomed as those who sank.
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