You don`t value your own life more than 4 pointless children? You do realize you only have one life to lose and you don`t get a second go round at this.
Those 4 trashy kids will just go on to be mediocre fucksticks. I`d call the man a moron more than a hero.
Besides, the kids should not have been in the water if they didn`t know how to properly swim. Perhaps they should have been wearing floaties.
Are you sure you even read the article? The sand bar they were standing on gave way. And the kids were 3,5,12 and 15 years old yet you are so sure they will "go on to be mediocre fucksticks." Imagine if they were your kids.
Yes, you only have one life. But for some, there are some things greater than one's self. One's existence. There are some things worth both living and indeed dying for. But that is something you will never understand. You have shown yourself repeatedly to be a very selfish, self-absorbed, malignant narcissist.
But that is not surprising since you believe in nothing other than yourself. That this world and the entire universe happened purely by chance and nothing more than random concussions of molecules that just always existed. Fair enough, I can't prove you wrong as you can't prove you're right. And like my opposing view it's a matter of faith. But don't make the argument that believing in nothing makes you a better person. Metaphysics determine ethics.
But what the hell, it's not like you were ever going to write Beethoven's Fifth.