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_27
Snippet: The proponents of a wide range of moral theories could accept that there is a duty of easy rescue, according to which, if we can do something that would entail some significant benefit to others at a small cost to us, we have a moral obligation to do it. Peter Singer famously illustrated a version of the duty of easy rescue through his example of the drowning child: if I walk past a pond and notice a child drowning in it, I have a moral obligatio.....
Document: The proponents of a wide range of moral theories could accept that there is a duty of easy rescue, according to which, if we can do something that would entail some significant benefit to others at a small cost to us, we have a moral obligation to do it. Peter Singer famously illustrated a version of the duty of easy rescue through his example of the drowning child: if I walk past a pond and notice a child drowning in it, I have a moral obligation to save the child even if this means getting my clothes muddy.25
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