What is more, although a fence does not provide a barrier to a young child, it will provide an almost insurmountable barrier to would-be rescuers.
Thus, the method of pairwise comparison provides no basis for choosing the greater number, leaving the rescuer to break a tie between saving one person and saving five others.
But in order to focus attention on the difference in the amount of money each would-be rescuer demands, it's important to control for these other possible variables.
Following a destructive earthquake, even the ceremony of rescue is morally and politically charged, as rescuers fight not against 'nature' but against the twisted ruins of their own design failures.
It does not matter much, when assessing whether the rescuer should compensate for the unavoidable injuries, if the rescuer acted from benevolence, whimsy, or a desire to impress.
Further, emergency room workers shouldn't even have thought of this as a stranger to stranger relationship; they were, after all, not just professional helpers but professional rescuers.
It seems right to say both that the saved person has been harmed and that the rescuer has harmed her, although under special circumstances.24 22.
After all, running into a burning building to save someone else's child could be socially irresponsible if the rescuer has four dependent children at home.
