The Most Dangerous Game by Javier Hernandez

fclavijo5 — 2025-05-16 13:33:34 UTC

Ideals and beliefs can quickly change in dire situations. And you won't be on the strong side of the world forever.

2025-05-16 13:34:59 UTC

If you can not against them, Join them. At least of this way maybe you have more chances of survival.

2025-05-16 13:35:41 UTC

About empathy. Learning to see other's point of view when acting in a way it might affect them.

2025-05-16 13:35:47 UTC

To make a reflection about how thin can be the line between civilization and savagery, and how your thoughts can change depending on your position in the story.

2025-05-16 13:35:58 UTC

To be empathic, as rainforest said in these world exist the hunters and the hunted, and the some of the hunters live feeling superior. But as the story shows could be a moment when the places could change

2025-05-16 13:36:00 UTC

The main message for me is that you have to adapt to all the situations that life can put on your path, even if you are in advantage or disadvantage.

Sara

2025-05-16 13:36:01 UTC

For me, the main message is empathy, since at the beginning Rainsford hunted for fun and didn’t think about how the animals felt. Once he experienced what it was like to be hunted, he felt what they felt when he killed them

2025-05-16 13:36:26 UTC

Is that when people lose empathy and view others as lesser beings, they can justify any cruelty even murder

lurodriguezma — 2025-05-16 13:36:41 UTC

The line between hunt and being hunted is thinner than we think. We can act brutal and savage at some point just to survive. We are going to succumb to our instincts

Jeremy

2025-05-16 13:36:49 UTC

I think is the perspective that we have about the violence, it’s a reflection of how you see the hunt, as a game or as a murder?

Mariana Medina

2025-05-16 13:37:16 UTC

The importance of respecting human life and how losing emphaty and morality can lead people to become savage

In some cases, we develop empathy until we experience suffering. In addition, the things we say or practice can come back to us (in Rainsford's case, dehumanization).

2025-05-16 13:38:05 UTC

2025-05-16 13:38:07 UTC

I think it's the fact that we shouldn't question what someone goes through and what they feel; that is, we should put ourselves in their shoes because we don't know if at some point we're the ones suffering. We must have empathy for others.

2025-05-16 13:38:10 UTC

People will always prefer being the hunter than the prey, even if this goes against their beliefs and values. But that we also have to be prepared for every kind of situation, cause not everytime we will be able to put our values as main priority, but our security.

2025-05-16 13:38:18 UTC

Zaroff’s ideas can be related to today’s society in how some people in positions of power dehumanize others for their own benefit or entertainment

lurodriguezma — 2025-05-16 13:38:39 UTC

Capitalism is basically hunting humans for consume and blow. This idea that you have to be the hunter and threat the others if they were animals or things without feelings is horrible.

2025-05-16 13:38:59 UTC

His ideas can be related with our current predators society, that can make everything just for getting money, for getting more power, for getting material things, and in the story case, for having fun. Forgetting that you are not the only one that matters in life.

2025-05-16 13:39:09 UTC

I think it relates to how humans adapt depending on the situation. They explore this topic and take into account the role of "survival instinc" going against morality.

2025-05-16 13:39:17 UTC

Zaroff sees people in an utilitarian way where they're resources to be exploited if they're not "Strong" enough. This way of being people is still present in today's society in ideals such as that people deserve to be exploited in their works because they're not "Smart"/"Important" enough.

2025-05-16 13:40:02 UTC

For nowadays people everything is becoming boring so faster as the hunt was for Zarcoff. We are challenging and overextending what we have just to be constantly under the feeling of euphoria and ecstasy, but just as zarcoff has done, this desire can break unthinkable barriers such as morale.

fclavijo5 — 2025-05-16 13:40:23 UTC

Im our era, many wealthy people, knowing what money can do, are fully capable of doing something like this game just for the sake of doing it. Boredom is a powerful enemy. If you have the resources, you can easily stray away from the right path.

lurodriguezma — 2025-05-16 13:40:43 UTC

I really like the egg theory to think about empathy. Basically this theory tells that we are one conscious experiencing in billions of lives at the same time. This make us this that if I hurt there other, I'm hurting myself too.

Jeremy

2025-05-16 13:40:54 UTC

his mentality is similar to the society’s mentality because both reflect the ambition and the unempathetic actions that te people do just for fun and entertainment.

Sara

2025-05-16 13:41:12 UTC

Nowadays, people only think about their own benefit, that's the reason why we don't care about stteping over others to achieve our goals or dreams like Zaroff

2025-05-16 13:41:43 UTC

This way of thinking can also be related to ambition and the way in which power sometimes dehumanizes us

lurodriguezma — 2025-05-16 13:41:44 UTC

Yeah, as a child. I think that we always are exposed to be a pray, unfortunately.

2025-05-16 13:42:13 UTC

Learn how to listen and comprehend when others explain their point of view, learning that nuisances exist and should be taken into consideration when talking about important matters, or even small disagreements. Try to see why te other is hurting and, if we're causing the pain, what we can do to help.

2025-05-16 13:42:23 UTC

In my opinion, Zaffors's ideas can be related to social classes and their differences. We can also say that this is related to the ideas of people who think that by having privilege, they can decide the lives of others as if it were a game.

2025-05-16 13:42:24 UTC

I think that to put yourself in someone else's shoes is the best way, being conscious that all of us have pass through different situations, so just be kind.

2025-05-16 13:43:16 UTC

Of course, being a woman in this society means being a prey everyday.

2025-05-16 13:43:18 UTC

When society prefers to be wealthy instead of being a good person in general. This statement has influenced a lot of people around the world to earn money in many unethical ways, because capitalism goes by money, not by values.

2025-05-16 13:43:36 UTC

Multiple times. Vulnerable groups exist and are targets of others in various ways

fclavijo5 — 2025-05-16 13:43:52 UTC

There's little to do to promote empathy. No matter how many stories you write, how many have to suffer, there always will be people who can ignore the social norms to do whatever they want, without caring about others. The best we can do is, individually, try to be as selfless as possible and hope others will do the same, that is, without letting others walk over us.

2025-05-16 13:43:53 UTC

Teaching children to be kind and to think about how others feel, this can helps them grow up with respect for people who are different from, in the future

lurodriguezma — 2025-05-16 13:43:56 UTC

At least we are animals too, and just in case we are in extreme conditions and we have to act just by our instincts, we will do it to survive, is the law of life: survive and reproduce

2025-05-16 13:44:08 UTC

Perhaps it can be reflected in what we call "competition's spirit". We have the idea that those around us are people who must always be surpassed if we want to stand out in something, regardless of what it means to put at risk; all of this implies that there's al ways a winner and a loser, like hunter and prey.

2025-05-16 13:44:08 UTC

When I think of empathy, the idea of "don't do what you don't like to be done" comes to mind, in this way we put ourselves in the shoes of the other and consider their context, their well-being

2025-05-16 13:44:12 UTC

Now almost all is a competition where only the hardlest, who becomes in predator, survives behind backs of the weaknest, who becomes in prey. And how we can be the predator, but also the prey, as we can seeing in the armed conflict

Mariana Medina

2025-05-16 13:44:35 UTC

Maybe in practices. explotaition, discrimination or abuse of power where certain. are deshumanizes or treated like objects

2025-05-16 13:44:37 UTC

Humans are animals and we will try to survive the best we can with the resources and knowledge we have.

2025-05-16 13:45:02 UTC

The Lack of empathy and that fascination with competing in the Zaroff's personality are some characteristics of today's society. Excessive empathy is harmful but The lack of this also harms . Additional it impressions too much because Zaroff causes a little of fear.

Maybe in the inequality and the devaluation of life normalization we experiment now at days. There are many governments and social practices wich not care about whole society, forgetting vulnerable groups and seeking the benefit of the upper classes. Forgetting vulnerable groups rights is dehumanizing

2025-05-16 13:45:19 UTC

2025-05-16 13:45:41 UTC

In my opinion, empathy is not just something you promote, you can't tell someone to be empathic and be sure this is going to happen

People are the ones who have to open their eyes for themselves, see the two sides of the coin, then decide if they are going to be apart of the other reality or are going to be aware and try to understand

Jeremy

2025-05-16 13:45:41 UTC

We should start deconstructing our mains ideas, and start to think what I the people thinking is

2025-05-16 13:46:03 UTC

Sometimes, when you want to be friendly, people take advantage of it. It's a little hard for me to say no when it comes to helping, and sometimes it's not worth it

2025-05-16 13:46:04 UTC

That we are animals also, and we will always try to find the ways to survive, is the life law.

2025-05-16 13:46:05 UTC

Putting ourselves in the others place, truing to understand what they are doing and why are they doing it. Understanding does not mean agreeing to others actions, but comprehending them.

2025-05-16 13:46:22 UTC

Yes, as the prey

Mariana Medina

2025-05-16 13:46:29 UTC

Maybe incorporate this value in the schools, teaching childrens and adults to express their feelings and how to try to understand the others feelings

2025-05-16 13:46:48 UTC

I think for this, we need to understand that we are not alone in the world. We need to listen to others and help them whenever we can. Perhaps by educating the little ones so they grow up with a different perspective on how to be empathetic.

fclavijo5 — 2025-05-16 13:46:48 UTC

We, as righteous citizens with scruples, are always prey. So technically, yeah. I may or may not have done things that could be questioned, but it's very hard to differentiate between the good and bad.

Mariana Medina

2025-05-16 13:47:39 UTC

Yeah, everyday as a woman I feel in danger of being a prey

fclavijo5 — 2025-05-16 13:47:52 UTC

No matter how self righteous someone is. In dire situations, instincts for survival will always kick in. We are just a different species.

Jeremy

2025-05-16 13:48:05 UTC

Yes, as a child in school I experienced the both sides

Sara

2025-05-16 13:48:08 UTC

Trying to imagine how the other person feels in a given situation

2025-05-16 13:48:44 UTC

Yes, as a prey, when I was a Child.

2025-05-16 13:49:32 UTC

Yes, both. Many times as a "prey", less as a "hunter", and I think that when people uses you as a prey, is because you are kind of naive

Jeremy

2025-05-16 13:50:10 UTC

That we would do anything to survive even with the most fear

2025-05-16 14:16:36 UTC

We evolved from animals, so we have instincts to survive situations that push us to the limit. History shows us how humans use their potential to survive to the point of taking risks, like when Rainsford jumped into the sea near the end of the story. These instincts often emerge when we feel in danger.

2025-05-16 14:18:02 UTC

Maybe trying to think that we all have problems but it doesn't mean you can Invalidate the others opinions. Instead you should attempt to look the big picture