There was a film called Saving Private Ryan. It told of a man named James Ryan, the youngest of four brothers. His three older brothers had all been killed in action in different places within two weeks. After learning of this, the generals at American General Headquarters decided to send a special squad to safely rescue the unfortunate mother's only remaining son from the war zone, so that she would not have to endure the pain of losing another child.
The rescue mission fell to Captain John Miller and his squad, who had just completed the landing operation at Omaha Beach. These soldiers could not understand why so many people had to search for one person across the dangerous, vast European battlefield—or, more precisely, one Army man just like them.
Why did the Ritz Hotel employees have to save Allied pilots? Because the cost of training them was different from the cost of training an Army soldier. Likewise, training a Harvard graduate was also very expensive. From that perspective, wasn't it only natural for low-education, low-cost Army soldiers to give their lives to protect Harvard graduates?
First, "smart people" needed to understand one thing: neither American police nor the government had any obligation to protect citizens from criminals. Citizens who were harmed had no right to demand that the police or government bear responsibility, unless there was a special relationship between the plaintiff and the police or government. In other words, even if American police saw that a criminal was about to blow your head off with one shot, if they were not related to you, they had no responsibility to protect you. They would stand far away with their guns and try to negotiate with the criminal, asking him to put down his weapon. If you were unfortunate enough