Yellowfin said:^ But would that amount to involuntary servitude?
If your area has a Good Samaritan law, a doctor might be held accountable for not rendering aid--it could be looked upon as withholding aid.
If your area has a Good Samaritan law, a doctor might be held accountable for not rendering aid--it could be looked upon as withholding aid.
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A bartender is selling a perfectly legal beverage to someone, as long as that person doesn't drive. Making that bartender stop the person from driving is to conscript the bartender into acting on behalf of the govt. If the govt can conscript a bartender, or a person throwing a party at their house, what is to stop them from conscripting a CCW holder? See the connection?
No, it's a very poor anology.
A bartender voluntarily serves a customer, who voluntarily orders a drink from a bartender. There is a server-customer relationship. A state may have a dram-law that imposes a duty on a bartender to not over-serve a customer and/or to arrange for transportation after serving the customer, and which imposes liability on the bartender for failing to perform the duty owed to the customer.
My sister-in-law is an RN and I think she's lawfully required to offer assistance to say car collision victims (I don't like to call them accidents, as they usually are not accidental). I think over the years, she's been told at times by her employer that the legal consequenses of rendering aid may be worse than if she didn't. I know they've flip-flopped on the issue a couple of times. I'll have to ask her what her employer's current position on this is and if the government has some expectation.