Quote Originally Posted by christopher leigh View Post
Guick of course I'd help you, I wouldn't leave a dog dying in the road!BUT lets keep the context in terms of the welfare state.If the other fell runners ganged up on me and told me, that unless I helped you, I'd have my property confiscated, or I'd be thrown in prison, would you then consider my action to help, moral?

Or lets say my wife or a very good friend had fallen at the same spot as yourself.Do you really think I'm going to tend to you first?You cannot say that 'in moral terms i'd have no choice.' just look at all the mountaineers who walk past dying people on Everest!

Your comments on the Samaritan, make me think your a Christian.If thats true, it's hardly suprising that you ask me to 'stop thinking so hard and use my imagination.'
That's good CL because if you look at my avatar you'll notice that I am a dog.
As a first aider your duty would be to the person most in need not to the person you like the most.
Those people walking past the dying on the South Col they're not mountaineers mate.
The choice they make is between being human and being something less.
John Lennon said "Imagine" too. He didn't claim to be a Christian.