Selected article for: "easy rescue and individual cost"
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_44
    Snippet: Thus interpreted, this principle represents the strongest justification possible for implementing quarantine and isolation measures. The principle implies that the state may permissibly compel individuals to do something if the benefit to other people, including the harm that is prevented, is significant and if the cost to any individual is comparatively and absolutely small. Since in such cases individuals would, according to the individual duty.....
    Document: Thus interpreted, this principle represents the strongest justification possible for implementing quarantine and isolation measures. The principle implies that the state may permissibly compel individuals to do something if the benefit to other people, including the harm that is prevented, is significant and if the cost to any individual is comparatively and absolutely small. Since in such cases individuals would, according to the individual duty of easy rescue that we introduced above, have a moral duty to do what the state compels them to do, the principle of state enforced easy rescue picks out cases in which there is an especially strong justification for coercion or compulsion.

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