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Reply #67: Why is it murky? She's not a police officer. She's a bystander. [View All]

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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-05 02:18 AM
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67. Why is it murky? She's not a police officer. She's a bystander.
It is well-settled law in America that no person has a duty to risk their life to save another. I'm not talking about people who are paid to do that, and therefore have a contractual duty to respond. I'm talking about citizens.

You have no duty to jump into water, go into fire, or take any risk to save anyone. What law says that? Where is it?

Duties are born of positions and responsibilities held. According to these facts, the woman had no such duty to the child. This case is an outrage, another fascist example of what is going wrong in America today.
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