Those Who Demand Work Accident Claims

The Question of Rationality
People should not judge harshly those who are currently demanding work accident claims. These claimants, aside from having to undergo the stressful and arduous experience of claiming compensation, also have to deal with the necessary pressure which this process imposes.

But more than their vulnerability, work accident claimants should be spared the inconsiderate annoyance of other people because they are barred from acting as rationally as their critics. Unlike these snobbish spectators, claimants actually have a genuine stake in what is happening, the outcome of which will determine in no insignificant way their futures, and so they should be forgiven for momentary surrenders to their passions. It is impossible to expect them, just as it would be cruel to estimate their character, at a time when they are least in control of themselves and suffering from extreme strain.

Moreover, these critics should know too that these claimants are not acting wholly their own thoughts and ideas. No. Rather, much of what they are doing are dictated to them by their lawyers, people who can, in the interest of money, exploit the trust of their clients and order them to do an embarrassing but income-generating mistakes. Sometimes claimants do refuse to heed their lawyers, but this is the exception, not the norm.

Unreal Personalities
That people will reveal who they really are in moments of extremes stress is an idea slowly gaining currency today. The logic is simple. These people say that the great pressure of such situations act like a powerful fire that will smelt away the impurities and accidental qualities of a person’s soul and leave nothing behind except its real indestructible core. For instance, those who are demanding work accident claims should be placed special focus on because supposedly how they will act while claiming is expressive of what kind of personalities they really possess.

What we can say about this theory is that is fallacious because it is too simplistic. It is not right that the identity of a person should be based on any one moment of his existence but on the general attitude he has shown all throughout his life. What we do every day and not just on one specific day is the sounder basis of our character. It would be stupid to condemn someone forever as an ingrate for a short lapse in morals, something which he may have atoned for already or will do so in the future, just as we cannot praise some as the savior of morals for deciding to act like an honest man one day of the year and spend the rest as a criminal. Surely the great question of who we really are deserves a better answer than this misplaced reliance on momentary behaviors.