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This 3 page paper discusses readings with regard to whether or not the duty to rescue (i.e., to help someone in trouble) should be made a legal requirement. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and gives an opinion on them. Discussion The readings ask us to consider the case of a 19-year old college student, David Cash, who was with a friend at a
Nevada casino. The friend took a 7-year old girl into a stall in the washroom, raped and strangled her. Cash knew something was terribly wrong, but left before anything happened.
However, he didnt try to stop his friend, nor did he summon help. He did nothing. In a second case, which actually went to trial, Robert McFall suffered from a
rare bone marrow disease that required a transplant from a compatible donor if he were to survive. Donors could only be found among close relatives; in this case, it was
McFalls first cousin, David Shimp, who was found to be a suitable match. But Shimps wife objected and begged him not to go through with the procedure, which is dangerous
to both donor and recipient. Shimp accordingly refused to undergo the procedure; desperate, McFall sued to force Shimp into compliance. Despite the grave nature of the case, the judge found
that Shimp could not be compelled into allowing an invasive procedure against his will. McFall died not long after the case was decided. The first reaction a reader is likely
to have is one of revulsion. How can anyone walk away from a situation like the one in which a 7=year old girl has been dragged into the mens room
in a casino? Cash surely knew that what his friend was doing was revolting at the very least. Likewise, we would probably want to condemn both David Shimp and his
wife to the same sort of agony that McFall and his family went through during the desperate search for a donor. But the point is that our repugnance is based
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