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Flooding in India: Why wasn't the government ready?
by Mark Sappenfield
09/04/08This article discusses how the government took no steps to help India after a flood. I picked this article is a perfect example of what Thomas Hobbes believed. Thomas Hobbes was a man who believed that a person should protect their natural rights, this is exactly what Indian civilians did when the government did not intervene. This couldn't have been a better example of Thomas Hobbes beliefs. There was a flood, and the Indians protected their lives using their own person power to evacuate the town and set up refugee camps.
I think all of this could have been avoided, i mean not the flood part, but in terms of evacuating and situations like that. The thing is, this flood happened in India's monsoon season so this is regular, and yet the government still did nothing. It was only until after the flood that the government started responding, and what they offered wasn't of much help at all. It got so extreme that people had to take the role of the government in this situation. Their two options in this situation was either die, or protect their own, most people took the Thomas Hobbes resort. That was the right choice
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