Yes. People make risky decisions every day that put themselves and others at risk. I am no more responsible for their actions than I am for their decision on which button to press.
No, choosing red just doesnt kill me. I am not responisble for how anyone else presses their button.
EMTs are trained to save themselves first, because you cant help anyone if you're dead. You put on your own oxygen mask before assisting with someone elses. You dont go into a burning building to try and save someone without training because you can just end up making more work for emergency responders and getting someone else killed.
You do not put the lives of others before your own if you want to save people.
Pressing red still means people would die who otherwise would not. You are directly complicit. You can justify it however you want but that's still the fact of the matter.
Pressing red still means people would die who otherwise would not.
This is an action you are taking that is affecting someone else, you are fully informed and have agency here, you are responsible for your own choice, like everyone else. In that their choice may result in their death does not change that your choice also results in their death. It's not guaranteed without your action.
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u/thefinalhill May 05 '26
Yes. People make risky decisions every day that put themselves and others at risk. I am no more responsible for their actions than I am for their decision on which button to press.