A person that refuses to aid in the survival of all, what would you do with them?

The good christian answer: Kill him and convert him into protein rations so the rest can eat. Maybe sexually defile the corpse before cutting it up. Confess to a catholic priest after landfall and have all your sins forgiven.
The satanic, rational, atheist answer: Reschedule shifts.

You mean, like a Republican? I pity them for being brainwashed and do my best to not get too futilely worked up over how selfish they are. Can’t really do much with them except show them parts of the world outside their narrow minds, with the hope that with greater exposure to difference comes greater acceptance of difference.

This is the frustration I feel when people don’t want to pay into a universal healthcare program…

There’s not much I can do except lay a verbal smackdown and hope for a change of heart.

It’s happened. This is an emergency situation and calls for extraordinary measures and effort on the part of the captain and crew. Today he would become a pariah and ignored by a very pissed off crew who leave it to the captain to handle. The captain will confined him for his own safety. If things become dire, the captain may cut this man’s rations of food and water. If you don’t work, you don’t eat, or more importantly, drink. He’ll come around.

This type of uncooperative behaviour, insubordination which endangers both the ship and crew, often led to marooning in the old days. Better he die somewhere else than be murdered aboard ship, or thrown overboard in the dead of night and bring authorities down on the ship in the next port of flag. His marooning could always be explained away by the captain’s statement that the malingerer showed signs of contagion. But before the 19th century, no explanation was necessary.

This situation is covered more than once in the books by Robert Louis Stevenson and most thoroughly in the non-fiction journal Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana. After his youthful escapades as a crewman aboard whalers and merchantmen during 1834–36, Dana came home to graduate from Harvard, and embarked on a long distinguished career in law. He wrote many of the maritime laws we abide by today concerning the protection and rights of the able seaman.

The above is assuming, of course, that this man is a malingerer and not being asked to do the impossible. The captain, if competent, would certainly first look into this man’s complaint. If legitimate, the captain would simply readjust the division of labor. Dana’s contributions to maritime law helped ensure that this man’s complaints would get a hearing, among other rights.

Tie him so that he cannot move and weigh him down so his hands are free and his head is just above water when he is placed next to the pump handle. Pump or die, dude!

@Espiritus_Corvus If things become dire, the captain may cut this man’s rations of food and water. If you don’t work, you don’t eat, or more importantly, drink.
That might be a method to get the person to toe the line, but can, or will the captain have the heart to do that to a blood relative, if it were some random person, maybe, but your own brother/sister’s son? If you cut off food and water, doesn’t that crates a situation where someone has to guard it so the slacker doesn’t resort to stealing some? If you are still miles from shore, booting him off the vessel would not be an option one could use unless they were going to set him adrift in a lifeboat.

Change shifts, allow the man to rest. If his complaint is legit then he should have no problem doing the work after a bit of rest. If not then you’ll know for certain and can take more severe measures.

@Hypocrisy_Central Trust me. Blood relative or not, the captain would have the heart.

The slacker is in confinement for his own protection. The Cook, and ultimately the Mate is always responsible of food and water. On larger vessels, that fall to the Purser. It goes Cook, Purser, Mate. The Purser is responsible for, among other things, all valuables on board. He also functions as law enforcement, but a good Purser plays that down until it’s necessary. The Mate takes over if the Purser for some reason can’t do his duty.

It is not unheard of that a crewmember falls overboard in the dead of night while nobody is watching. It happens frequently especially on small fishing vessels, like 74 foot shrimp trawlers. That is why the captain has confined the malingerer. Saves him a lot of paperwork later.

Cutting a person loose alone in a lifeboat, even under these circumstances, might get the captain a 2nd degree murder charge (manslaughter), or an attempted, if the guy survives. He might beat it, but it will cost him his vessel to do so and surely cost him his license.

BTW: I’d just like to add that Two Years Before the Mast is a fantastic read.