Ethics

The poem Ethics discribes the authors memory from school, and the importance of one teachers question. This poem actually made me wonder to myself, whether or not i'd save a human or a painting? Common sense would be to save the lady, but if the lady was bound to die soon, wouldn't you want to save the painting that could live forever? Although many people would have different answers to this question, there really is no right or wrong answer. Even the poet ponders the question over to herself, but in all opinion i believe the old lady should be saved from a fire whether or not she is going to die soon. A painting is juts a painting, and a person is something that you can never replace, nor get back. Ethics are what you believe they should be, fire is mostly named for power and overcoming strength. Maybe with just these two key words the author was trying to get a simple point across that as humans, sometimes we make the wrong decisions daily. Also, maybe our ethics and values are prioritized correctly.