by Hope4Others 53 Replies latest jw friends
Damn!! I thought this thread was about morels...
You would Quirky...lol....hehe
Anyways lots of thought here, interesting....its not an easy choice by any means...and it makes you really
think....I tossed all the what if this and what if that for quite awhile.....
Anymore takers......?????
"Good Samaritan laws in the United States are laws protecting those from blame by choosing to aid others who are injured or ill. This law is intended to reduce bystander's hesitation to assist, for fear of being prosecuted for unintentional injury or wrongful death of those they aid. "
Reduce but not eliminate hesitation as in the lawsuit going on in California. sammieswife.
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
Dec. 19, 2008
No good deed goes unpunished, or so goes the saying.
Such was the case with Lisa Torti, who is being sued for pulling a now-paralyzed friend from the wreckage of a Los Angeles car accident in 2004.
The victim's lawyers claim the Good Samaritan bumbled the rescue and caused injury by yanking her friend "like a rag doll" to safety.
But Torti -- now a 30-year-old interior designer from Las Vegas -- said she thought she had seen smoke and feared the car would explode. She claims she was only trying to help her friend, Alexandra Van Horn, and her own life has been adversely affected by the incident.
"I know [Van Horn] has a lot of financial issues and her life has changed," she said. "But it's not my fault. I can't be angry at her, only the path she has chosen to take. I can only pray it helps her."
"I don't have any more fight left," Torti told ABCNews.com, choking back tears. "It's really emotional."
The California Supreme Court ruled this week that Van Horn may sue Torti for allegedly causing her friend's paralysis. The case -- the first of its kind -- challenges the state's liability shield law that protects people who give emergency assistance.
The court ruled 4-3 that only those administering medical care have legal immunity, but not those like Torti, who merely take rescue action. The justices said that the perceived danger to Van Horn in the wrecked car was not "medical."
The court majority said the 1980 Emergency Medical Service Act, which Torti's lawyers cited for protection, was intended only to encourage people to learn first aid and use it in emergencies, not to give Good Samaritans blanket immunity when they act negligently.
Van Horn's lawsuit will go on to trial court to determine if Torti is to blame for Van Horn's paralysis.
But some legal experts say the ruling may discourage people from trying to save lives.
"What they are saying is that if you pull someone out of a pool, if you provide CPR, you do have a defense," said Torti's lawyer, Jody Steinberg.
"It seems to defy logic," he said. "At a certain point anyone who instructs or educates [in emergencies] will advise that you must hesitate. Those split-second decisions will be gone and someone could die."
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Well here is my response......
For me personally this is a hard decision....I would not pull the leaver....The 3 on the rail were in the wrong place at the wrong time....stupidy
to be there in the first place.
To chose the one guy then I would be playing God...choosing to kill him deliberately when he was in a safe place and no harm would come to him..
I would let fate run its course and hope they get off the track....
Whatever I have to deal with later so be it....
I think situations like this will always depend on your personal makeup to how you would react in any given situation, but it is things like this that get the gears rolling in your mind....
hope4others
To chose the one guy then I would be playing God...choosing to kill him deliberately when he was in a safe place and no harm would come to him..
To choose the three you are also playing god. In fact, sitting back and doing nothing as if you do not exist is a heck of a lot closer to playing god. Like it or not, in that situation the power is thrust upon you.
Here's one for you. Lets say some exotic new disease develops that makes aids look like a cough. The disease is limited to people of a foreign nation, say Turkey.
You know a doctor who has worked years on a cure but has not found it. Finally, he does find it, but he didn't take notes of how he made this cure. He's just telling you about it and hands you the cure excitely showing you its contents when he has a heart attack and dies. There you are, holding the cure to the deadliest disease known to man, with no knowledge of how it's made.
Your cell phone rings. Your best friend whom you've known since kindergarten is in tears. She's been on vacation in Turkey like a dolt, and has acquired the deadly disease. She has 24 hours to live.
Would you, administure the cure to your friend and thus destroy any chance to reverse engineer the cure and save everyone who gets the diesase?
Give the cure to your other scientist friend who can reverse engineer any material in two weeks and consistently reproduce it, but lose your friend in the process?
