[Vision2020] Fwd: Breaking news from lmtribune.com

[Donovan Arnold]

Tom,
 
If you are CPR certified you are required to help.  
 
 
Donovan Arnold

--- On Sat, 5/14/11, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:


From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fwd: Breaking news from lmtribune.com
To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>, "Joe Campbell" <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>, "vision2020 at moscow.com" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 1:23 PM


Donovan Arnold stated:

"Nobody is morally or ethically responsible to prevent a bad event if
their action knowingly would result in something worse."

In my opinion moral and ethical responsibility is determined individually.

If I were fishing from a dock on Lake Coeur d'Alene and observed a child
slowly drowning . . . although I may not be legally responsible . . . I
would consider myself to be ethically and morally responsible to take
action to prevent the child from drowning.

Footnote:  If I were fishing on a lake in Germany and observed a child
drowning, I WOULD BE legally responsible to take action to prevent the
child from drowning.  I could be arrested and jailed in Germany, but not
in the United States.  If you were to drive by an unattended accident and
didn't stop to offer help, you would be held criminally liable.

Just some laws I think the US should consider.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to
changeand the Realist adjusts his sails."

- Unknown


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