Survival before​ morals

Everyone will put things in a line of most important to least important, it is different for everyone but sometimes they sacrifice one to keep or get another, like the title.  We have been reading a book about this mindset in class, ‘Lord of the Flies’ shows how people slowly shift to making choices for survival instead of rational moral decisions that benefit everyone.  Jack is the perfect example of this, he starts as a choir boy who wants to be chief because he can sing a certain note, and becomes a terror who wants to kill pigs and put peoples heads on sticks.   I don’t have any pictures to support my article because humans have removed the need to survive with technology and society, but deep down we still have the same instincts we had before, insanity can become a problem for people who are stranded for long periods of time because they now need to find out how to survive, not how to get through town to their nine to five job.  Without the structure and rules of society, people begin to fall apart, this is shown well by Golding because they don’t instantly become savage, they slowly become less and less civil, more worried about getting their next meal instead of helping others, which is why they join Jacks tribe instead of staying with the little order they had when in Ralph’s tribe.  There isn’t really much to say about something that we never have to experience in real life, none of us had to be stranded away from society and have to survive day to day in the wild, we all have plenty of food with a seemingly infinite supply of water, we don’t have to worry about animals attacking us in the safety of our towns and homes and we don’t have to worry about crazy people attacking, killing and torturing other survivors.  Most likely, none of us are going to have to deal with anything that happened in lord of the flies, we have different things to worry about, like getting a job or having good grades, I honestly hope none of us find out how horrible people can get when they are starving on an island and other people are fighting for control with little thought to the safety of others.