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The real question is not whether the rescue is self improsed by poor judgment or not
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but if liability can be imposed across the board for rescue. Lets carry the argument forward. Can a good Samaritian --essentially a volunteer--without any duty to rescue latter bill for services rendered? Isn't this part of our "social compact" when we formed a Union to tax for the public good? I have in my office a cast iron plaque --a replica--of the shield private insurance companies used to give out in Penn in 1841 for the home owner to attach to the front of their home for private fire insurance. Wm Franklin--one of our founding fathers was the first to get the city of Philadelphia to have governmental fire companies. Do we want to go back in time??

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