Asked by Julia Guerrero on May 09, 2024

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Explain why laws exist that do not impose a duty to rescue.​

Duty To Rescue

An obligation to provide assistance to a person in danger or distress, typically in emergency situations, under specific legal conditions.

Laws

Systematized rules and regulations established by a government or society over a certain territory to regulate behavior.

Duty

An obligation often enforced by law, morality, or protocol, requiring individuals or entities to act or refrain from acting in certain ways.

  • Analyze the ethical considerations surrounding duty to rescue and exceptions to general principles.
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Traditionally,our society has tended to grant maximum leeway to individual freedom of choice.Requiring that people help one another in emergencies would infringe on that freedom by forcing people to act when they might choose not to.  Further,imposing a duty to rescue presupposes that there is agreement that rendering assistance is always the right thing to do,which in some cases,it is not.  It might also put the rescuer at risk of harm.