Which would you save?

A response to "Ethics" by Linda Patsan

Frankly, I don't understand this poem. The concept behind it is interesting as always, but the message is definitely unclear. I guess this poem speaks to the general decline in overall care towards ethics. It is almost robitcally ingrained in us to say that we'd give regard to life over art; almost so much so that it becomes unimportant. Honestly, i don't feel that people will actually even think about this on a realistic level. Would you save an old woman or a Rembrandt painting in the event of a fire in a museum? I personally don't care for Rembrandt, but i'd also have to take into account whether or not the woman can walk, and it would also depend on the pertinancy of danger that the fire posed. While it may be interesting to examine how the general regard to morals and ethics have grown darker like the colors in the painting, this question has become effectively exhausted.