Risky rescues revisited

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI:10.1080/00948705.2023.2214951

Patrick Findler

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay replies to Phillip Reichling’s recent article in this journal defending a principle of rescue I proposed, but rejected, in my paper, ‘Climbing high and letting die’ (2021). I argued that ‘the comparable risk principle’ imposes unreasonable demands on adventure sport athletes, for it implies that because they assume substantial risks for sport, they have duties to assume comparable risks to rescue others – duties that would otherwise be supererogatory precisely because of the risks involved. Reichling (2022) defends the principle and contends that once these athletes have assumed substantial risks for sport, they cannot reasonably claim that a rescue that involves comparable risks is too risky. I argue here, however, that Reichling fails to recognize that one can have good personal reasons for assuming risks that do not prevent one from reasonably citing comparable risks as a justification for not rescuing others. So although adventure sport athletes assume risks for personal reasons, it does not follow that they have a duty to assume comparable risks to rescue others. Reichling’s defence of the comparable risk principle is therefore unsuccessful.

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风险救援再次出现

这篇文章是对Phillip Reichling最近在本刊上发表的一篇文章的回应，这篇文章捍卫了我在我的论文“攀高而死”(2021)中提出但被拒绝的拯救原则。我认为，“可比风险原则”对冒险运动运动员提出了不合理的要求，因为它意味着，由于他们为运动承担了重大风险，他们有义务承担可比风险来拯救他人——正是因为所涉及的风险，这种义务本来是多余的。Reichling(2022)捍卫了这一原则，并认为一旦这些运动员为体育运动承担了重大风险，他们就不能合理地声称，涉及相当风险的救援太冒险了。然而，我在这里认为，Reichling没有认识到，一个人可以有很好的个人理由来承担风险，而这些风险并不妨碍一个人合理地引用类似的风险作为不拯救他人的理由。因此，尽管冒险运动运动员出于个人原因承担风险，但这并不意味着他们有义务承担相应的风险来拯救他人。因此，赖克林对可比风险原则的辩护是不成功的。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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