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Flooding in India: Why wasn't the government ready?
by Mark Sappenfield
09/25/08This article discusses how the government took no steps to help India after a flood. I picked this article as a perfect example of what Thomas Hobbes believed. Thomas Hobbes was a man who believed that a person should use their personal powers to 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 guess the Indian government wasn't prepared people may say, well after reading this tell me what your opinion is.
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. The author even states "Monsoon floods are a yearly occurrence for India." Shouldn't this tell you that the government should be prepared for theses things? It was only until after the flood that the government started responding, and what they offered wasn't of much help at all. "The task of rescuing and then organizing food and shelter for 3 million displaced people "is such that only the Army can handle it,"" but where is this army, they certainly aren't in India helping food victims that is for sure. The situation got so extreme that people had to take the role of the government in this case. They were the ones who organized and set up refugee camps, they were the ones who evacuated them selves, not the unprepared government. The two options in this situation were either to die, or protect their own, most people took the Thomas Hobbes resort. That was the right choice
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