GUILTY BYSTANDERS - ON THE LEGITIMACY OF DUTY TO RESCUE STATUTES
GUILTY BYSTANDERS - ON THE LEGITIMACY OF DUTY TO RESCUE STATUTES
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1088-4963.1994.tb00009.x
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发表时间：
1994-03-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
MCINTYRE, A
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作者：
MCINTYRE, A
在美国的大多数司法管辖区，如果你轻而易举地为身处严重危险的陌生人提供帮助或为其寻求帮助，而你自己却不会面临重大风险，那么你的行为甚至不会构成轻微的刑事犯罪。如果受威胁的人死亡，而死亡本可以通过大声警告、打电话或扔救生圈来避免，而且--你没有出于对受害者的冷漠甚至恶意而采取行动，这些事实不足以指控你过失杀人罪或任何较轻的罪行，只要受害者是法律上的陌生人，而你与之没有任何法律责任。即使从道德的角度来看，你的行为狂热显然是可怕的。=属于英美法律传统的国家对本文早期版本的有用评论1要感谢邦廷研究所的研究员和观众在我关于这个主题的口头演讲后进行的有益讨论，鲁思·安娜·普特南和我在韦尔斯利学院的其他同事，海蒂·施文斯费尔，以及公共事务哲学的编辑。这篇论文的工作得到了拉德克利夫学院玛丽·英格拉汉姆·邦廷研究所的邦廷奖学金和韦尔斯利学院的提前休学的支持。
In most jurisdictions in the United States, if you fad to assist or obtain assistance for a stranger in grave penl when you could do so easily and without significant risk to yourself, your conduct does not constitute even a minor criminal offense.’If the imperiled person dies and the death could have been prevented by a shouted warning, a phone call, or a tossed life preserver, and-you failed to act out of callous indifference, or even malice, toward the victim, these facts are not sufficient to charge you with negligent homicide or any lesser offense, provided that the victim was a legal stranger, someone to whom you were not linked by any legal duty. This is so even if your fadure to act was clearly monstrous from a moral point of view.= The countries that belong to the Anglo-American legal tradition have gen-For helpful comments on earlier versions of this essay 1 would like to thank the fellows and audience at the Bunting Institute for their helpful discussion after my colloquium lecture on this topic, Ruth Anna Putnam and my other colleagues at Wellesley College, Heidi Schwenzfeier, and the Editors of Philosophy of Public Affairs. Work on this essay was supported by a Bunting Fellowship from the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and an early leave from Wellesley College.