In the cases of Call of the Wild and Titanic, both show a great amount of responsibility of the cost of life. The designers and the ships captain are responsible for the Titanic, while Buck is responsible for responsibility of his team.
The deaths of the passengers on the Titanic are partially the fault of the captain and the ships' designers. The Captain is mostly to blame, because if he wasn't in such a hurry to make the voyage he wouldn't have encountered the formidable iceberg. Though the ships designers are to blame as well, the ship wasn't designed to hold that much water and wasn't fully equipped with enough lifeboats. The Captain and the designers were both responsible for the safety of the passengers.
In the book Call of the Wild, Buck is responsible for the lives of his teammates and even before he became a sled dog he was responsible for the safety of the children. Buck knew that was his primordial responsibility though and tried his best to protect them. If something happened to cost them their lives then it would be on Buck.
These are great examples of knowing and not knowing that you are responsible for lives ; and realizing the cost. Would you be able to handle such responsibility?
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