Survival under extremity can require moral transformation

Evidence

What are the ethics of resisting? When extreme circumstances are forced upon a person, what is she allowed to do to survive? Can she commit apostasy as a religious person, or kill a relative? The answers are complex, possibly unknowable. The idea of survival becomes hazy: It can mean more than just staying alive; it can mean leading the life she feels entitled to have. And in order to do that, the morals she was taught, that she has long lived by, could shift and mutate into something she no longer recognizes. — Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky, 15

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky, 15
• XREF: connects to: Extreme circumstances can force survivors to abandon their former morals; Ordinary people can commit extreme brutality under the right circumstances — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 1; Understanding personal capacities for evil leads to moral development. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 600 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Understanding personal capacities for evil leads to moral development. #expands (0.70) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 600
• Physical conditions and scientific torture can destroy human will-power #complicates (0.65) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1080
• Ordinary people can commit extreme brutality under the right circumstances #expands (0.60) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 1
• Extreme acts of self-sacrifice can function as argument rather than abandonment of it #expands (0.60) — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive, 569
• Survivors of abuse often develop survival tactics to cope. #exemplifies (0.55) — Dave Pelzer, A Child Called ‘It’, 95