Teacher's liberty in earthquake-a research

2008-6-11 | Medatj

[medatj]

I'm a Chinese and live in Beijing. You may heard about a massive earthquake stroke Sichuan province last month.

In this natural disaster, one my fellow people, exactly a teacher, ran before his students and declared his view of personal liberty and freedom regardless his teacher indentity. His allegation has triggered a extensive discussion on humanity and teacher, as a publice servant,responsibility.

I know that personal liberty is well developed and protected in US. But, and the same time, US is a country regarding public responsibility especially for those paid by the taxpayers to do their civil job.

I came here to post this more for my confusion. How do you American people look at this? I heard that in your civil law teacher, as other public servant, has the reponsibility to protect the public first. How do you fellow people look at the responsibility vs personal liberty?

Thank you guys. :)

[Fichori]

They very well may.

And if you will recall, I said "They entered because it was their duty and hope to save as many as possible."

So, yes, it was their duty.

But it was their duty by choice.

While firefighters have a formal obligation to fulfill their duty, I believe Americans have an informal duty of honour to those who have given their lives in defense of Americas freedoms.
(i.e help someone in need, because its the right thing to do)

Sadly, sometimes people are guilty of dereliction of duty, formal or otherwise.