I agree that the man is not legally culpable but I do not think he is completely unblamable.
Admittedly, anyone has the right to stay away from danger when his/her life is threatened. But the man's situation was not simply one where life confronts nature. He was a teacher and his students were in great danger when he ran away alone. Though he was not legally bound to the obligation, protecting students from danger should have been his instinctive reaction when danger struck.
In the May 12 earthquake, scores of teachers died protecting their students from falling buildings. When excavated from the debris, they were all found in the same posture - spreading their arms to shield the children under their bodies. I believe they did so out of a teacher's instinct. They could not have given a thought to anything else in a split second, be it a legal right or an ethical virtue.
Maybe we who did not experience the quake are not eligible to blame the escaped teacher but his act was certainly a deplorable contrast to his colleagues' heroic acts.
More contemptible is his flaunting of his contempt of a man's bravery of protecting the weak - children and elderly - and his unconditional pursuit of "personal freedom". In the 6,100-word article he posted online, a fairly large part was devoted to the defense of this personal freedom.
Those who cited "human nature" and "human right" to defend the man are also deplorable. Perhaps they meant to show how they were impartial and cool-minded amid the nation's passionate support of the heroic deeds of the locals of the quake-stricken areas and the rescuers from across the country. But they were actually confusing right and wrong over the issue of ethics. Most representative of these people was the one who cited the Law on Teachers, which does not rule that a teacher is responsible to protect students in case of natural disasters. "Therefore," the defender said, "the teacher is not blamable."
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