It is wrong to commit murder under any circumstance

Associate Justice Benjamin Cardozo was correct in stating "When two or more are overtaken by a common disaster, there is no right on the part of one to save the lives of some by killing another." There is no law that says if you or the group of people you are with are suffering from a dire situation, it is okay for you to murder someone to save your life. As a person in authority Holmes has the responsibility to provide for the people on his boat. However, his authority should not give him the authority to choose someone else to die. Also he should not have ordered other men to commit murder by throwing people overboard. With a circumstance as the one they were in, each individual should have been considered equal to every other person on the boat. Even if one person would have given up their life, someone would have still had to commit murder. Sometimes people encountering difficult situations say things they would not normally say. Would a person still voluntarily give up their life if they knew that they would be rescued the following day? Most likely they wouldn't. If no one volunteers themselves to jump overboard then the whole boat should go down together. "A captain goes down with his ship" is an old saying that should have been the way that this incident played out.