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Theron Pummer on the Rules of Rescue

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The Moral Obligation to Save More

There are occasions where we can rescue others. If we choose to do so, then we have a moral obligation to do so in the best possible way rather than say to save one life. This obligation to save more rather than fewer lives holds even when there is no obligation to save anyone. Every kind of minute we have resources that we could use, we could be helping others and helping others more effectively rather than less.

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