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_32
Snippet: We favour a third formulation of the duty of easy rescue that combines both comparative and absolute elements, as follows:If the cost (including foreseeable risk of significant disability or death) to someone of performing an action X (or of refraining from performing an action Y) is sufficiently small to be reasonably bearable, and the resulting benefit to other people (or harm that is prevented) is large relative to the cost, then the agent oug.....
Document: We favour a third formulation of the duty of easy rescue that combines both comparative and absolute elements, as follows:If the cost (including foreseeable risk of significant disability or death) to someone of performing an action X (or of refraining from performing an action Y) is sufficiently small to be reasonably bearable, and the resulting benefit to other people (or harm that is prevented) is large relative to the cost, then the agent ought to do X (or not do Y).
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