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Originally Posted by dlish
just a minor twist..
you come across a car accident, and the driver needs your help. he's stuck and the motor's just caught fire. do you have a moral obligation to help this person?
its not your fault, its not your accident, but this person is dependant on you to survive.
of course you help! you have a moral (and legal?) obligation to do your utmost to ensure this persons saftey. same goes for the child.
besides the obligation to help out, i would have thought that human contact would be important, albeit the human being an infant.
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You have no legal obligation to put yourself in harm's way to help someone. A car that is already on fire and filled with gas, is a bomb waiting to go off. I can't say what I would or wouldn't do until I was actually standing there, but I certainly wouldn't hold it against anyone who waited for the fire to go out before going up to the car.
Another version of this favored by a certain medical school interviewer is: "You're walking down the street when the person in front of you drops over, they're not breathing and bleeding from the mouth, you have no breathing barrier, do you begin CPR?"
As for the infant -
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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Unless its starts raining Carnation... baby would need to grow teeth right-quick.
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This presents the biggest logistical problem to feeding it, for me, but that's not to say that I wouldn't try. Besides, depending on the location of the infant, it could be significant to the possibility of getting my ass off of said island.