If I understand what you are asking, I think people in life or death situations should not be held accountable. In most cases, the person in danger would want to live and cry out for help. The person in trouble didn't ask for someone to attack them.
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Adult have more stress, they have more responsibility than kids and adolescence. Some example could be they have house to pay, they need to give the children food, and their certainly very tired after couple hours of working. For adolescence, they don't have that much responsability, they go to school, learn, study and prepared their future. Very old person does not really have a high stress level, their children take care of them, is their time to relax. Middle and high schooler have stress with study homework things related. But adult have the most stress since they have a lot more responsibility, so we can conclude stress affect you with your responsibilities and your feelings, an example is being and love and the other person does not feel the same.