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On the surface, this sounds like a great idea.
This idea can and will save lives.
I am sure many are saying, "Hells, yeah, I am signing up for this."
Here's my question.
Once you sign up for this app, what are your obligations?
Are you obligated to respond every time your phone goes off?
(Yes, I get that it will likely be a rare occasion, but still...the question bears answering.)
How much danger should you be willing to place yourself in order to respond?
How much inconvenience should you be willing to go through in order to respond?
How prepared do you think the average person signing up for this is really when faced with a life/death scenario?
One would hope that anybody signing up for this already feels confident that they can respond positively to all your other questions.
Those that really aren't may be setting themselves up for a lot of guilt feelings when they don't respond for a variety of reasons.
One would hope, but I doubt many have thought about this at all. Hence my question. And morally and ethically speaking, what should the obligation be? At some point this will be tested in a court of law because everything is always tested in a court of law sooner or later.
How prepared do you think the average person signing up for this is really when faced with a life/death scenario?
Stand there and snap photos with the camera :S
The app would be more useful just displaying a quick guide on how to do CPR with a timer on it for the compressions/breaths. And maybe a gps text to 911 (not sure what the emergency number is over in other countries is)
But I'm not too sure it will become popular, people tend to download apps for hype, but then realize it wants them to do something maybe once in their lifetime so they delete it a week later
One would hope, but I doubt many have thought about this at all. Hence my question. And morally and ethically speaking, what should the obligation be? At some point this will be tested in a court of law because everything is always tested in a court of law sooner or later.
IIRC, doesn't the law already state that a bystander has no legal obligation to be a 'good samaritan'?
Once you sign up for this app, what are your obligations?
Be willing to drop everything and go. As I understand it, you will be called because your phone is close to the person in distress. For you, it would most likely be someone in a restaurant or business or a neighbor, not while you are at work.
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Are you obligated to respond every time your phone goes off?
(Yes, I get that it will likely be a rare occasion, but still...the question bears answering.)
Yes.
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How much danger should you be willing to place yourself in order to respond?
I would not respond to something like domestic violence or run into a burning building, but would make sure competent help is on the way.
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How much inconvenience should you be willing to go through in order to respond?
Not sure how to quantify this. What is inconvenience? Letting dinner get cold? Leaving in the middle of a movie? Walking out on the President of the US? Would probably do all of those (with apologies to the POTUS).
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How prepared do you think the average person signing up for this is really when faced with a life/death scenario?
Perhaps some training should be required in order to sign up.
On the surface, this sounds like a great idea.
This idea can and will save lives.
I am sure many are saying, "Hells, yeah, I am signing up for this."
Here's my question.
Once you sign up for this app, what are your obligations?
Are you obligated to respond every time your phone goes off?
(Yes, I get that it will likely be a rare occasion, but still...the question bears answering.)
How much danger should you be willing to place yourself in order to respond?
How much inconvenience should you be willing to go through in order to respond?
How prepared do you think the average person signing up for this is really when faced with a life/death scenario?
From a legal standpoint, I think the absence of any payment of consideration to those who sign up would preclude imposition of a legal duty on the part of those who signed up. In other words, I don't think one needs to be worried about being sued for not responding, being unable to respond, or not successfully reviving the person.
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