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- From: cook@sunloan.crd.ge.com (Cathi Cook)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: The Red Button Scenario
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.193705.16450@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 19:37:05 GMT
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- In article <Aug12.053357.59846@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>,
- sa114984@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Steven Arnold) writes:
- |>In article <1992Aug07.170906.23210@watson.ibm.com>,
- |>margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
- |>> In <Aug07.043718.29553@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- |>sa114984@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Steven Arnold) writes:
- |>> >
-
- |>> > I further maintain that if I, or anyone else, by our
- |>> > own voluntary behavior endangers the life of someone else, we incur an
- |>> > obligation to protect the person we have endangered.
- |>>
- |>> Perhaps a moral obligation, but certainly no legal obligation. (Did you
- |>> miss all the discussion pointing out that you *can't* be forced to donate
- |>> blood, organs, etc.?)
- |>
- |> I mean a LEGAL obligation. If I injure someone, I must do everything I
- |>feel is reasonable to save that person -- but if my idea of "reasonable"
- |>doesn't do the job, I can be in big trouble.
-
- Please, please, point to one law that requires you, the average guy, to render
- any sort of medical assistance to someone you have injured in an accident, much
- less a law that obligates you to donate some portion of your body to them.
-
- |>If, for example, I hit a
- |>pedestrian, and if I think that saying a quick prayer as I drive away is
- |>"reasonable," most juries would probably differ.
-
- Only in that the law states that you can't drive away from an accident.
- Whether you give vigorous CPR (assuming you're qualified to do so), perform
- a tracheotomy, or just sit in your car and wait til the police show up makes
- little legal difference.
-
- NOTHING requires you to take any action to help the victim. You can't be
- charged if you don't. In fact, I imagine that if you attempted to render
- "assistance" that you were unqualified to give, you might be charged with
- endangering the person's life further.
-
- You're out there on this one, Arnold.
-
- |> Let's just say it all set itself up by random chance, as atheists seem
- |>to believe the infinitely more complex universe came into being.
-
- Don't tell me. You're a Creationist, aren't you?
- |>
- |>Steve
-
- -rocker
-