Author: Giubilini, Alberto; Douglas, Thomas; Maslen, Hannah; Savulescu, Julian
Title: Quarantine, isolation and the duty of easy rescue in public health Document date: 2017_9_18
ID: 09gzchv0_31
Snippet: A less demanding and easier to accept formulation of the duty of easy rescue is one that takes into account also the costs to individuals in absolute terms, and not only the relative size of the cost compared to the benefit that could be gained. A milder duty of this sort would morally demand benefitting others or preventing harm to others only when the individual cost is small enough. One such formulation has been suggested by Tim Scanlon, accor.....
Document: A less demanding and easier to accept formulation of the duty of easy rescue is one that takes into account also the costs to individuals in absolute terms, and not only the relative size of the cost compared to the benefit that could be gained. A milder duty of this sort would morally demand benefitting others or preventing harm to others only when the individual cost is small enough. One such formulation has been suggested by Tim Scanlon, according to whom ‘[if] you can prevent something very bad from happening (…) by making only a slight (or even moderate) sacrifice, then it would be wrong not to do so’.30 Call this the duty of absolutely easy rescue.
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