[mo]

"What kind of person is going to say, "I value these people's lives so much that I'll risk my own life to save them, but not if I run a theoretical risk of financial liability."...?"

Evidently enough to warrant Good Samaritan laws already.."

"Good Samaritan laws in the United States and Canada are laws protecting from blame those who choose to aid others who are injured or ill"....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_Law

[Physicist]

Oh, well, then, if a law is passed, then clearly that means there must have been a problem in need of redress, laws being so invariably wise and beneficent.

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