What in the world has happened to this country - attempting to be the nanny of everything and everyone, not only determining what someone should or should not do in situations like this?
What has happened to sacrifices to preserve human life?
We had firefighters and emergency personnel stand by while someone drowned in a local lake, on the premise that "it was too dangerous for them to save the life of a drowning teenager."
Have they never heard of lifelines?
Thankfully, many of our forefathers never had such reservations toward acts of heroism.
Imagine how "authorities" might respond today to those brave souls at the Alamo? Today, they'd all be arrested, tased, held for militancy and defiance of "authorities (aka liberals who "know better" what is best for everyone!)
Whether it is police refusing to act or police/firefighters determining that a loving parent desires to save a child, we have far, far too many people with a "god delusion," making decisions, then forcing those decisions on everyone.
In my opinion, tasters are being used by far too many "authorities" against a free people exercising their God given rights to not be assaulted!
I respectfully disagree - if the house is a blazing inferno and there is hardly even the prospect of getting in the front door then I think it is being compassionate and thinking about the rest of the man’s family in doing so. A person faced with this position may be temporarily not thinking straight.
If there is a possibility of actually saving a human life then self sacrifice is noble and right. If in the Emergency services people’s minds there was no hope then they did the guy, and the rest of his family, a favor. As I know quite a few Emergency Services and rescue type guys - if there was any chance at all they would have been in there!